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