This bill would require that financial disclosure forms of elected officials that the conflicts of interest board is required to post online pursuant to local law 21 of 2016 be posted in a non-proprietary and machine-readable format.
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Int. No. 1178
By Council Members Vacca and Chin
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to making disclosure forms of elected officials posted on the conflicts of interest board’s website available in a non-proprietary, machine-readable format
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. The opening paragraph of subdivision e of section 12-110 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law 21 for the year 2016, is amended to read as follows:
e. Public inspection of reports and privacy considerations. Information filed in reports required by this section shall be maintained by the conflicts of interest board and shall be made available for public inspection, upon written request on such form as the board shall prescribe, except that information filed in reports required by this section by each elected officer described in sections four, twenty-four, twenty-five, eighty-one, ninety-one and eleven hundred twenty-five of the New York city charter shall be made available for public inspection on the board’s website in a non-proprietary format that permits automated processing, to the extent that such information is not withheld pursuant to paragraph 1 of this subdivision, without written request. The availability of forms for public inspection pursuant to this subdivision is subject to the following provisions:
§ 2. This local law takes effect immediately; provided, however, that it shall not apply to reports of annual disclosure filed in 2016 for the calendar year 2015.
SMD
LS 7535/2016
3/10/16