21 CAR § 1-103 – Reporting of payments for public servant’s expenses for food, lodging, or travel

(a)
1. (1) In situations where a registered lobbyist pays all or part of an expenditure in excess of forty dollars ($40.00) on behalf of a public servant for food, lodging, or travel, such lobbyist shall be required to report an itemized listing of the payment on a lobbyist activity report pursuant to 21 CAR § 3-204.
2. (2) Those reporting requirements apply regardless of whether the public servant is appearing in his or her official capacity or the event bears a relationship to the public servant’s office or position.
(b) If a nongovernmental source makes an expenditure for food, lodging, or travel in excess of one hundred fifty dollars ($150) on behalf of a public servant who is appearing in his or her official capacity at an event which bears a relationship to his or her office or position and required to file a Statement of Financial Interest pursuant to Arkansas Code § 21-8-701(a), then such payment would need to be reported by the public servant in Section 10 of his or her Statement of Financial Interest.
(c)
1. (1) In situations where a public servant makes an appearance which is not an appearance in his or her official capacity or which does not bear a relationship to his or her office or position, a payment for food, lodging, or travel in excess of one hundred dollars ($100) on behalf of the public servant would be considered a gift, unless such payment is otherwise excepted from the definition of gift.
2. (2) Assuming the public servant is required to file a Statement of Financial Interest pursuant to Arkansas Code § 21-8-701(a), the receipt of such food, lodging, or travel would need to be reported as a gift in Section 8 of his or her Statement of Financial Interest.