* § 66-b. Registration and reports by certain persons promoting or
opposing the adoption of proposed constitutional amendments by the
constitutional convention convening in the year nineteen hundred
sixty-seven. 1. Every person retained or employed for compensation by
any person, firm, corporation or association who, on behalf of such
principal or employer, promotes or opposes directly or indirectly the
adoption of a proposed constitutional amendment or amendments by the
constitutional convention convening in the year nineteen hundred
sixty-seven, whether or not he has a personal interest therein, shall,
before any service is entered upon in promoting or opposing such
proposed constitutional amendment or amendments, file in the office of
the secretary of state a writing subscribed by such person stating the
name or names of the person or persons, firm or firms, corporation or
corporations, association or associations, by whom or on whose behalf he
is retained or employed, together with a brief description of the
proposed constitutional amendment or amendments in reference to which
such service is to be rendered.

2. It shall be the duty of the secretary of state to provide a docket
to be known as the docket of constitutional convention appearances, with
appropriate blanks and indices, and to forthwith enter therein the names
of the persons so retained or employed and of the persons, firms,
corporations or associations retaining or employing them, together with
a brief description of the proposed constitutional amendment or
amendments in reference to which the service is to be rendered, which
docket shall be open to public inspection.

3. Upon the termination of such retainer or employment the fact of
such termination, with the date thereof, shall be entered in the docket
by the secretary of state upon receiving written notice to that effect
from such person or from the person, firm, corporation or association in
whose behalf such service has been rendered.

4. No person, firm, corporation or association shall retain or employ
any person to promote or oppose any proposed constitutional amendment or
amendments for compensation contingent in whole or in part upon the
adoption or defeat of any such amendment or amendments by the
constitutional convention, and no person shall accept any such
employment or render any such service for compensation contingent upon
such adoption or defeat.

5. No person shall for compensation engage in promoting or opposing
any proposed constitutional amendment or amendments by such
constitutional convention except upon appearance entered in accordance
with the foregoing provisions of this section.

6. It shall be the duty of every person, firm, corporation, public or
private, or association, (whether or not required to file pursuant to
the provisions of subdivision one hereof), not later than April
fifteenth, nineteen hundred sixty-seven, to file in the office of the
secretary of state an itemized statement verified by the oath of such
person, or in case of a firm by the oath of a member thereof, or in case
of a domestic corporation or association by the oath of an officer
thereof, or in case of a foreign corporation or association by the oath
of an officer or agent thereof, showing in detail all expenses paid,
incurred or promised directly or indirectly through April third,
nineteen hundred sixty-seven, in connection with promoting or opposing
any constitutional amendment or amendments which may be proposed at such
constitutional convention, with the names of the payees and the amount
paid to each, including all disbursements paid, incurred or promised to
persons employed or retained up to such date, and also specifying the
nature of such constitutional amendment or amendments, and the interest
therein of such person, firm, corporation or association; provided
however no such itemized statement need be filed if the total of such
itemized expenses for the period ending April third, nineteen hundred
sixty-seven is less than two hundred fifty dollars.

7. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the state nor
shall subdivisions one, five and nine of this section apply to a county,
city, town, village, public board or institution, or their agents or
employees; nor shall the provisions of this section be construed as
affecting professional services in drafting a proposed constitutional
amendment or amendments or in advising clients or in rendering opinions
as to the construction and effect of any constitutional amendment or
amendments which may be proposed at such convention where such
professional service is not otherwise connected with constitutional
convention action.

8. On or before April twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred sixty-seven, the
secretary of state shall furnish to each delegate to such convention a
summary of the information contained in the docket of constitutional
convention appearances, and on or before such date shall also transmit
to the president of such constitutional convention a copy of every
statement filed in his office up to and including such date pursuant to
subdivision six of this section.

9. Every person, every member of any firm, and every association or
corporation violating any provision of this section and every person
causing or participating in a violation thereof shall be guilty of a
misdemeanor and, in case of an individual, shall be punishable by
imprisonment in a penitentiary or county jail for not more than one year
or by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by both, and, in
case of an association or corporation, by a fine of not more than one
thousand dollars. And in addition to the penalties hereinbefore imposed
any corporation or association failing to file the statement of expenses
prescribed by this section shall forfeit to the people of the state of
New York the sum of one hundred dollars per day for each day following
the expiration of thirty days after the time fixed by subdivision six
for filing such statement, to be recovered in an action to be brought by
the attorney general.

* NB (Expired see § 2 of Ch. 7 of the Laws of 1967)