[§84-11.5]  Reporting of gifts. (a)  Every legislator and employee shall file a gifts disclosure statement withthe state ethics commission on June 30 of each year if all the followingconditions are met:

(1)  The legislator or employee, or spouse or dependentchild of a legislator or employee, received directly or indirectly from onesource any gift or gifts valued singly or in the aggregate in excess of $200,whether the gift is in the form of money, service, goods, or in any other form;

(2)  The source of the gift or gifts have intereststhat may be affected by official action or lack of action by the legislator oremployee; and

(3)  The gift is not exempted by subsection (d) fromreporting requirements under this subsection.

(b)  The report shall cover the period fromJune 1 of the preceding calendar year through June 1 of the year of the report.

(c)  The gifts disclosure statement shallcontain the following information:

(1)  A description of the gift;

(2)  A good faith estimate of the value of the gift;

(3)  The date the gift was received; and

(4)  The name of the person, business entity, ororganization from whom, or on behalf of whom, the gift was received.

(d)  Excluded from the reporting requirementsof this section are the following:

(1)  Gifts received by will or intestate succession;

(2)  Gifts received by way of distribution of anyinter vivos or testamentary trust established by a spouse or ancestor;

(3)  Gifts from a spouse, fiance, fiancee, anyrelative within four degrees of consanguinity or the spouse, fiance, or fianceeof such a relative.  A gift from any such person is a reportable gift if theperson is acting as an agent or intermediary for any person not covered by thisparagraph;

(4)  Political campaign contributions that comply withstate law;

(5)  Anything available to or distributed to thepublic generally without regard to the official status of the recipient;

(6)  Gifts that, within thirty days after receipt, arereturned to the giver or delivered to a public body or to a bona fideeducational or charitable organization without the donation being claimed as acharitable contribution for tax purposes; and

(7)  Exchanges of approximately equal value onholidays, birthday, or special occasions.

(e)  Failure of a legislator or employee tofile a gifts disclosure statement as required by this section shall be aviolation of this chapter.

(f)  This section shall not affect theapplicability of section 84-11. [L 1992, c 322, pt of §1]