SEC. 2.120. EMPLOYMENT OF CITY AND COUNTY OFFICERS OR EMPLOYEES; APPOINTMENT OF EMPLOYEE TO CITY AND COUNTY OFFICE.
§ 2.120
Lobbyists must notify the Ethics Commission within 10 days if they or their clients employ city officers, their families, or full-time city employees, or if a lobbyist's employee is appointed to city office. The notice must include the employee's name, employment date, job duties, and salary (reported in specified salary ranges).
If you are a lobbyist and you hire (or ask a client to hire) a city officer, a city officer's family member, or a full-time city worker, you have to tell the Ethics Commission within 10 days. You also have to report it if one of your own employees gets appointed to a city job. In both cases, you need to provide the person's name, when they started, what they do, and how much they make. For salary, you just need to say which range it falls into: $250 or less, more than $250 up to $1,000, more than $1,000 up to $10,000, or more than $10,000.
- Controversial:The rule imposes disclosure obligations on lobbyists regarding employment relationships with city officials and employees, which touches on lobbying regulation and potential conflicts of interest—topics on which San Francisco residents hold diverse views.
- Complex:Subsection (a) contains a lengthy conditional clause ('If any lobbyist employs or requests, recommends or causes a client...') that makes the rule's scope somewhat difficult to parse on first reading.
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Official text
(a) EMPLOYMENT OF CITY AND COUNTY OFFICERS OR EMPLOYEES. If any lobbyist employs or requests, recommends or causes a client of the lobbyist to employ, and such client does employ, any officer of the City and County, any immediate family member or registered domestic partner of an officer of the City and County, or any person known by such lobbyist to be a full-time employee of the City and County, in any capacity whatsoever, the lobbyist shall file within 10 days after such employment a statement with the Ethics Commission setting out the name of the employee, the date first employed, the nature of the employment duties, and the salary or rate of pay of the employee.
(b) APPOINTMENT OF EMPLOYEE TO CITY OFFICE. If an employee of a lobbyist is appointed to City or County office, the lobbyist shall file within 10 days after such appointment a statement with the Ethics Commission setting out the name of the employee, the date first employed, the nature of the employment duties, and the salary or rate of pay of the employee.
(c) REPORT OF SALARY. Whenever a filer is required to report the salary of an employee who is also an officer or employee of the City and County pursuant to this Section, the filer need only disclose whether the total salary payments made to the employee are less than or equal to $250, greater than $250 but less than or equal to $1,000, greater than $1,000 but less than or equal to $10,000, or greater than $10,000.
(Added by Ord. 71-00, File No. 000358, App. 4/28/2000; re-enacted by Proposition D, 3/5/2024, Eff. 4/12/2024, Oper. 10/12/2024)