Who Is Required to File

Generally, high-level officials and certain other employees at a significant risk for conflicts of interest must file annual disclosure reports pursuant to section 12-110(b). These officials and employees include:

• Elected City officials and candidates for elective City office (Mayor, Comptroller, Public Advocate, Borough Presidents, District Attorneys, and Council Members);
• Agency Heads, Deputy Agency Heads, and Assistant Agency Heads;
• Members of City policymaking boards and commissions, whether compensated or not;
• City employees who hold a policymaking position;
• City employees who are paid in accordance with the Mayor’s Management Pay Plan at level M4 or higher;
• Employees of the City Council, the Mayor’s Office, District Attorneys’ offices, and Special Narcotics Prosecutor’s Office, or of any agency that does not use M-Level Mayor’s Management Pay Plan indicators, whose responsibilities involve the independent exercise of managerial or policymaking functions;
• City employees who during the preceding calendar year negotiated, authorized, or approved contracts, leases, franchises, revocable consents, concessions, or applications for zoning changes, variances, or special permits (the Board refers to such filers as “contract filers”);
• “Local political party officials” (essentially defined as county leaders receiving annual compensation and/or reimbursement of $30,000 or more);
• Tax assessors are required to file annual disclosure reports with the Board, even if they do not fall into any other filing category;
• Members (whether compensated or not), officers, and employees of the New York City Housing Development Corporation; and
• Board members, officers, and employees of local public authorities, such as City-affiliated not-for-profit corporations, industrial development agencies, and public benefit corporations.