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6.811 Prohibitions against certain conduct by legislative agents and their employers -- Penalties.

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6.811 Prohibitions against certain conduct by legislative agents and their employers -- Penalties. (1) A legislative agent or employer shall not knowingly fail to register, as required under KRS 6.807. (2) A legislative agent or employer shall not knowingly fail to keep a receipt or maintain a record which KRS 6.821 requires the person to keep or maintain. (3) A person shall not knowingly fail to file a statement that KRS 6.807, 6.821, or 6.824 requires the person to file. (4) A legislative agent or employer shall not knowingly offer, give, or agree to give anything of value to a legislator, his spouse, or child. (5) A legislative agent shall not serve as a campaign treasurer, or as a fundraiser as set forth in KRS 121.170(2) for a candidate or legislator. (6) A legislative agent shall not make a campaign contribution to a legislator, a candidate, or his campaign committee. (7) (a) A legislative agent or agents and their employer shall not collectively spend more than one hundred dollars (&#36;100) in a calendar year on the purchase of <br>food and beverages consumed on the premises for each legislator and his <br>immediate family, collectively. (b) A legislative agent shall not spend more than one hundred dollars (&#36;100) in a calendar year on the purchase of food and beverages consumed on the <br>premises for each legislator and member of a legislator's immediate family, <br>collectively. This provision shall apply regardless of the number of employers <br>by whom the legislative agent is engaged. (8) An employer shall not knowingly employ, appoint, or retain a serving legislator or former legislator as a legislative agent until at least two (2) years have elapsed from <br>the date on which he vacated his office. (9) No person shall engage any person to lobby in exchange for compensation that is contingent in any way upon the passage, modification, or defeat of any legislation. <br>No person shall accept any engagement to lobby in exchange for compensation that <br>is contingent in any way upon the passage, modification, or defeat of any <br>legislation. Violation of this provision is a Class D felony. (10) A legislative agent or other lobbyist shall not go upon the floor of either house of the General Assembly while the house is in session, except upon invitation of that <br>house. Violation of this provision is a Class B misdemeanor. (11) If any legislative agent or employer violates any provision in subsections (4) to (8) of this section, he shall for the first violation be guilty of ethical misconduct. For the <br>second and each subsequent violation, he shall be guilty of a Class D felony. Effective: September 16, 1993 <br>History: Created 1993 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 4, sec. 26, effective September 16, 1993.