§ 166. Record of appearances. Every regulatory agency of the state
shall keep a record of appearances before it or its appropriate
divisions or bureaus of attorneys, agents and representatives appearing
on behalf of any person, firm, corporation or association subject to its
regulatory jurisdiction, for which they receive a fee, which record
shall be open to public inspection. Each regulatory agency shall file
the record with the New York temporary state commission on lobbying on
forms prescribed by the commission. The record shall be filed quarterly
on the fifteenth day of the month following the end of the quarter. The
term "regulatory agency" as used in this section shall mean the
department of financial services, department of financial services,
state liquor authority, department of agriculture and markets,
department of education, department of environmental conservation,
department of health, division of housing and community renewal,
department of state, other than the division of corporations and state
records, department of public service, the industrial board of appeals
in the department of labor and the department of law, other than when
the attorney general or his agents or employees are performing duties
specified in section sixty-three of this chapter.