The State Ethics Commission has the following duties:
(1) to develop forms for the filing of notices of registration, representation, complaints, and reports required by this chapter and to furnish the forms to persons upon request;
(2) to issue identification cards to each lobbyist before the lobbyist can engage in lobbying and prior to January tenth of each succeeding year;
(3) to develop a filing, coding, and cross-indexing system consonant with the purpose of this chapter;
(4) to make the notices of registration and the reports filed with the State Ethics Commission available for public inspection and copying as soon as practicable after receipt of them and to permit copying of any report or statement by hand or by duplicating machine, as requested by any person, at the expense of the person;
(5) to preserve the originals or copies of notices and reports for a period of four years from date of receipt;
(6) to have information, compiled and summarized, made available for public inspection and copying within thirty days after the close of each filing period.
HISTORY: 1962 Code Section 30-156; 1952 Code Section 30-157; 1942 Code Section 2070-1; 1935 (39) 3; 1974 (58) 2622; 1991 Act No. 248, Section 2.