6.811 Prohibitions against certain conduct by legislative agents and their

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(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, a candidate, or the spouse or child of a legislator or

candidate.

(5)A legislative agent shall not serve as a campaign treasurer, and shall not directly

solicit, control, or deliver a campaign contribution, for a candidate or legislator.

(6)A legislative agent shall not make a campaign contribution to a legislator, a

candidate, or his or her campaign committee.

(7)During a regular session of the General Assembly, an employer of a legislative

agent shall not make a campaign contribution to a legislator, candidate, campaign

committee for a legislator or candidate, or caucus campaign committee. This

subsection shall not apply to candidates for the General Assembly in a special

election held during a regular session of the General Assembly.

(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

the date on which he or she vacated his or her 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.

No person shall accept any engagement to lobby in exchange for compensation that

is contingent in any way upon the passage, modification, or defeat of any

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

house. Violation of this provision is a Class B misdemeanor.

(11)If any legislative agent or employer violates any provision in subsections

(4)to

of this section, he or she shall for the first violation be guilty of ethical misconduct.

For the second and each subsequent violation, he or she shall be guilty of a Class D

felony.