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Article 7. Lobbyist <br />Section 7.1. Purpose. For the purpose of minimizing the risk of improper <br />same time recognizing that not all forms of lobbying are improper, the folloN <br />Section 7.2. Registration Requirements. <br />(a) Lobbying, except as provided below, means any oral or writt <br />(including an electronic communication) to a city official, made directly or indi <br />working for pay or profit for any third party in an effort to influence or persuad <br />or oppose, recommend or not recommend, vote for or against, or take or refra <br />action on any municipal question. A lobbyist is an individual or group of in <br />compensation, work to influence the opinions of any city body or its membe <br />interests of another individual, group, business, group of businesses, pol <br />organization. <br />(b) The term lobbying does not include a communication: <br />)ying, hile at the <br />rules adopted. <br />r ctly by y person <br />e offic to favor <br />n from taking any <br />ividual who, for <br />r in sup ort of the <br />i ical or apolitical <br />(i) merely requesting information or inquiring about the fa ts or s <br />municipal question, matter or procedure, and not attem ing to <br />city official; <br />(ii) made by a public official or employee (including, but ot lim <br />employee of the City) acting in his or her official capac ty; <br />(iii) made by a representative of a media organization if <br />communication is gathering and disseminating news an <br />public; <br />(iv) made in a speech, article, publication, or other rr <br />and made available to the public, or through <br />television, or any other medium of mass commw <br />(v) made at a meeting open to the public under the Open N <br />(vi) made in the form of a written comment filed in the <br />proceeding of any other communication that is made on <br />to established city procedures; <br />(vii) <br />that is <br />us of any <br />fluence a <br />d to, any <br />se of the <br />ion to the <br />stributed <br />m, cable <br />a public <br />pursuant <br />made in writing as a request or petition for official actio and <br />a public record pursuant to established city procedures; <br />(viii) made in writing to provide information in response to <br />request by a city official for specific information; <br />(ix) the content of which is compelled by law; <br />9 <br />ired to be <br />an oral ~r written <br />. inr <br />