Title 19 Part 930

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Part and pursuant to Public Officers Law section 73(5-a)(b), no statewide elected official or any head of a civil department shall, directly or indirectly, solicit, accept, or receive any payment made in consideration for any speech given at a public or private conference, convention, meeting, social event, meal, or like gathering.

Nothing contained in this Part shall prohibit any State agency from adopting or implementing its own rules, regulation or procedures governing honoraria that are more restrictive than the requirements of this Part.

A member of the faculty (including an adjunct member of the faculty) at the State University of New York and the City University of New York, including all their constituent units except community colleges of the State University of New York and the independent institutions operating statutory or contract colleges on behalf of the State, and a State officer or employee serving in the title of research scientist, cancer research scientist, research physician, research psychiatrist or psychiatrist, is exempt from sections 930.4 and 930.5 of this Part, provided the service performed by such member of the faculty is within the subject matter of his or her official academic discipline.

The commission is authorized pursuant to Executive Law section 94 to investigate possible violations of Public Officers Law sections 73 and 74 and their corresponding regulations and take appropriate action as authorized in these statutes.

Any covered person who is required to file a financial disclosure statement pursuant to section 73-a of the Public Officers Law, including those persons qualifying for an exemption under section 930.7 of this Part, shall report any honorarium in excess of $1,000 (or all honoraria the aggregate total of which exceed $1,000 received from a single offeror) in his or her financial disclosure statement for the applicable year.