§ 73. Business or professional activities by state officers and\nemployees and party officers. 1. As used in this section:\n (a) The term "compensation" shall mean any money, thing of value or\nfinancial benefit conferred in return for services rendered or to be\nrendered. With regard to matters undertaken by a firm, corporation or\nassociation, compensation shall mean net revenues, as defined in\naccordance with generally accepted accounting principles as defined by\nthe commission on ethics and lobbying in government or legislative\nethics commission in relation to persons subject to their respective\njurisdictions.\n (b) The term "licensing" shall mean any state agency activity, other\nthan before the division of corporations and state records in the\ndepartment of state, respecting the grant, denial, renewal, revocation,\nenforcement, suspension, annulment, withdrawal, recall, cancellation or\namendment of a license, permit or other form of permission conferring\nthe right or privilege to engage in (i) a profession, trade, or\noccupation or (ii) any business or activity regulated by a regulatory\nagency as defined herein, which in the absence of such license, permit\nor other form of permission would be prohibited.\n (c) The term "legislative employee" shall mean any officer or employee\nof the legislature but it shall not include members of the legislature.\n (d) The term "ministerial matter" shall mean an administrative act\ncarried out in a prescribed manner not allowing for substantial personal\ndiscretion.\n (e) The term "regulatory agency" shall mean the department of\nfinancial services, state liquor authority, department of agriculture\nand markets, department of education, department of environmental\nconservation, department of health, division of housing and community\nrenewal, department of state, other than the division of corporations\nand state records, department of public service, the industrial board of\nappeals in the department of labor and the department of law, other than\nwhen the attorney general or his agents or employees are performing\nduties specified in section sixty-three of the executive law.\n (f) The term "representative capacity" shall mean the presentation of\nthe interests of a client or other person pursuant to an agreement,\nexpress or implied, for compensation for services.\n (g) The term "state agency" shall mean any state department, or\ndivision, board, commission, or bureau of any state department, any\npublic benefit corporation, public authority or commission at least one\nof whose members is appointed by the governor, or the state university\nof New York or the city university of New York, including all their\nconstituent units except community colleges of the state university of\nNew York and the independent institutions operating statutory or\ncontract colleges on behalf of the state.\n (h) The term "statewide elected official" shall mean the governor,\nlieutenant governor, comptroller or attorney general.\n (i) The term "state officer or employee" shall mean:\n (i) heads of state departments and their deputies and assistants other\nthan members of the board of regents of the university of the state of\nNew York who receive no compensation or are compensated on a per diem\nbasis;\n (ii) officers and employees of statewide elected officials;\n (iii) officers and employees of state departments, boards, bureaus,\ndivisions, commissions, councils or other state agencies other than\nofficers of such boards, commissions or councils who receive no\ncompensation or are compensated on a per diem basis; and\n (iv) members or directors of public authorities, other than\nmulti-state authorities, public benefit corporations and commissions at\nleast one of whose members is appointed by the governor, who receive\ncompensation other than on a per diem basis, and employees of such\nauthorities, corporations and commissions.\n (j) The term "city agency" shall mean a city, county
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