5704.1 Confidential Financial Disclosure statements shall be filed as follows:

1. (a) Any employee, other than a public official or Council employee, who advises, makes decisions or participates substantially in areas of contracting, procurement, administration of grants or subsidies, developing policies, land use planning, inspecting, licensing, policy-making, regulating, or auditing, or acts in areas of responsibility that may create a conflict of interest or appearance of a conflict of interests, as determined by the appropriate agency head, shall file, before May 15th of each year, with the agency head, or the agency head's designee, a report containing a full and complete statement of the information required by Section 5701.
2. (b) Each Council employee who acts in areas of responsibility that may create a conflict of interest or appearance of a conflict of interest, as determined by that employee's personnel authority, shall file a confidential report containing a full and complete statement of the information required by Section 5701 of the Ethics Act with the General Counsel to the Council no later than May 15th of each year.
3. (c) All confidential financial disclosure statements shall be filed electronically at the Board of Ethics and Government Accountability website using the electronic filing system and by submission of the completed e-filing to their agency Ethics Counselor. BEGA will provide confidential filers with instructions on how to file using the electronic filing system.

5704.2 Each personnel authority shall compile a list of all employees required to submit a confidential financial disclosure statement within its agency or the Council and shall supply the list to the Ethics Board by 1 1:59 p.m. on March 1 of each year. The list required by this subsection shall include the name, title, position, and grade level for each employee. Notice to and designation of required FDS filing employees shall be done in a manner consistent with 6 DCMR § 1810.

5704.3 Upon review of the confidential report, a personnel authority shall immediately forward to the Ethics Board any violation of the Code of Conduct whenever there is reason to believe that such a violation has occurred.

5704.4 [REPEALED].

5704.5 In addition to any sanctions that may be available for a violation of the Code of Conduct, the Director of Government Ethics may also impose a late fee at the rate of ten dollars ($10.00) per day (excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays), up

to a maximum of three hundred dollars ($300.00), on any filer who fails to timely file a true, accurate and fully completed report.

SOURCE: Final Rulemaking published at 60 DCR 2852 (March 8, 2013); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 61 DCR 6200 (June 20, 2014); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 62 DCR 11866 (August 28, 2015); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 64 DCR 5842 (June 23, 2017); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 65 DCR 0904 (February 2, 2018); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 71 DCR 011602 (September 27, 2024); as amended by Final Rulemaking published at 71 DCR 015873 (December 20, 2024).