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<baltimore-city-law heading="§ 8-42 Veracity and candor.">
  <section prefix="§" num="8-42" heading="Veracity and candor.">
    <para num="(a)" heading="Veracity required.">While engaging in lobbying activities a lobbyist, or an individual who expects she or he will soon be required to register as a lobbyist, may not knowingly make to a public servant a statement of material fact that relates to the lobbying activity and that the lobbyist knows to be false.</para>
    <para num="(b)" heading="Duty to identify self and clients.">While engaging in lobbying activities a lobbyist, or an individual who expects she or he will soon be required to register as a lobbyist, must, in any interaction with a public servant:<para num="(1)">affirmatively identify themselves as a lobbyist; and</para>
      <para num="(2)">identify the person on whose behalf they are lobbying.</para>
    </para>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 04-795</annotation>
    <annotation type="History">Ord. 18-198</annotation>
    <annotation type="Defined Terms">Lobby	§8-1</annotation>
    <annotation type="Defined Terms">Lobbyist	§2-20</annotation>
    <annotation type="Defined Terms">Person	§2-22</annotation>
    <annotation type="Defined Terms">Public servant	§2-23</annotation>
    <annotation type="Editor's Notes">Ordinance 18-198 (Bill 18-230) amended this section, effective March 3, 2019, to broaden the scope of persons subject to the prohibition in subsection (a) and to require, in subsection (b), certain affirmative disclosures in interactions with a public servant.</annotation>
  </section>
</baltimore-city-law>
