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P e r s o n a l financial interests, annual report, filing.

D. C. Code 1121 note.

5 USC 5332 note.

26 USC 1 et seq.

Reports, audit.

Hearing opportunity.

PUBLIC LAW 93-376-AUG. 14, 1974

[88 STAT.

(6) the amount of each tax paid by the individual, or by the individual and the individual's spouse filing jointly, for the preceding calendar year, except in the case of candidates filing reports during calendar year 1974, who shall file reports for the preceding three calendar years. (b) Any candidate for nomination for, or election to, office who at the time he becomes a candidate, does not occupy any such office, shall file within one month after he becomes a candidate for such office, and the Mayor, and the Chairman and each member of the Council of the District of Columbia holding office under the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act, and the Chairman and each member of the Board of Education, and each officer and employee of the District of Columbia government who performs duties of the type generally performed by an individual occupying grade GS-15 of the General Schedule under section 5332 of title 5, United States Code, or any higher grade or position (as determined by the Board regardless of the I'ate of compensation of such individual), shall file with the Board in a sealed envelope marked "Confidential Personal Financial Disclosure of (name)", before the fifteenth day of May in each year, the following reports of his personal financial interests: (1) a copy of the returns of taxes, declarations, statements, or other documents which he, or he and his spouse jointly, made for the preceding year in compliance with the income tax provisions of the Internal Revenue Code of 1954; (2) the name and address of each business or professional corporation, firm, or enterprise in which he was an officer, director, partner, proprietor, or employee who received compensation during the preceding year and the amount of such compensation; (3) the identity of each trust or other fiduciary relation in which he held a beneficial interest having a value of $10,000 or more, and the identity, if known, of each interest of the other fiduciary relation in real or personal property in which the candidate, officer, or employee held a beneficial interest having a value of $10,000 or more, at any time during the preceding year. If he cannot obtain the identity of the fiduciary interests, the candidate, officer, or employee shall request the fiduciary to report that information to the Board in the same manner that reports are filed under this rule. (c) Except as otherwise provided by this section, all papers filed under this section shall be kept by the Board in the custody of the Director for not less than seven years, and while so kept shall remain sealed. Upon receipt of a request by any member of the Board adopted by a recorded majority vote of the full Board requesting the examination and audit of any of the reports filed by any individual under section (b) of this title, the Director shall transmit to the Board the envelopes containing such reports. Within a reasonable time after such recorded vote has been taken, the individual concerned shall be informed of the vote to examine and audit, and shall be advised of the riature and scope of such examination. When any sealed envelope containing any such report is received by the Director, such envelope may be opened and the contents thereof may be examined only by members of the Board in executive session. If, upon such examination, the Board determines that further* consideration by the Board is warranted and within the jurisdiction of the Board, it may make the contents of any such envelope available for any use by any member of the Board, or the Director or General Counsel of the Board which is required for the discharge of his official duties. The Board may receive the papers as evidence, after giving to the individual concerned due notice and

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