<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 7-28 Sources of income - Substantial interests of elected officials.">
  <section prefix="§" num="7-28" heading="Sources of income - Substantial interests of elected officials.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="“Substantial interest” defined.">In this section, “substantial interest” means holding an equity interest of 30% or more in a business entity.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Scope of section.">This section only applies to payments received from any person that the elected official knows or should know was:<para num="(1)">a lobbyist;</para>
      <para num="(2)">a person regulated by the City; or</para>
      <para num="(3)">a person doing business with the City.</para>
    </para>
    <para num="(c)" heading="Disclosure of certain payments.">
      <para num="(1)" heading="Substantial interest in single entity.">If the elected official or the elected official’s spouse has a substantial interest in a business entity, the statement must include the name and address of any person described in subsection (b) of this section who, during the reporting period, paid that entity:<para num="(i)">$1,000 or more in the aggregate; or</para>
        <para num="(ii)">an amount that in the aggregate constitutes 5% or more of the gross income of that entity, if the gross income of that entity is less than $20,000.</para>
      </para>
      <para num="(2)" heading="Substantial interest in multiple entities.">If the elected official or the elected official’s spouse has a substantial interest in multiple business entities, the statement must include the name and address of any person described in subsection (b) of this section, who during the reporting period, paid those entities:<para num="(i)">$1,000 or more in the aggregate; or</para>
        <para num="(ii)">an amount that in the aggregate constitutes 5% or more of the gross income of those entities, if the gross income of those business entities is less than $20,000.</para>
      </para>
    </para>
    <para num="(d)" heading="Confidential information.">Nothing in this section is meant to require the disclosure of any information that is otherwise confidential by law.</para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 19-328</annotation>
    <annotation type="Defined Terms">Business entity	§2-4</annotation>
    <annotation type="Defined Terms">Business with City	§7-1</annotation>
    <annotation type="Defined Terms">Lobbyist	§2-20</annotation>
    <annotation type="Defined Terms">Person	§2-22</annotation>
    <annotation type="Defined Terms">Substantial interest	§7-28</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
