R 4.457 Statements and reports; expenditures for advertising and mass mailings.

Rule 57. (1) A lobbyist or lobbyist agent filing a statement or report under section 8 of the act shall, in determining the total amount expended for the category termed advertising and mass mailing expenses, report 1 amount representing the total amount expended for all of the following subcategories of expenditure: (a) Payments to a person for the writing or authoring of written, verbal, or visual materials, for acting, reading, producing, airing, or printing of materials designed to be disseminated, broadcasted, or otherwise transmitted to a public official to influence legislative or administrative action. (b) Payments to a person for envelopes, postage, and handling of advertising materials disseminated by means of mass mailing, except that if the advertising materials are part of a larger publication the primary purpose of which is not to influence legislative or administrative action, a mass mailing expense shall not be reported. (2) For the purpose of this rule, an allocated portion of compensation paid or payable to a person is includable for that portion of the person's compensated time as is devoted to advertising or mass mailing.