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12 <br />• person's attendance at an educational meeting for purposes primarily <br />related to the public duties and responsibilities of the covered person, <br />employee, or in order for the covered person to participate as a speaker <br />or member of a panel; or (ii) a covered person's attendance and <br />participation in meetings of a state, regional, national, or international <br />organization of which the County is a member or that the covered <br />person is a member or participant of by virtue of that person's public <br />position, or as a member of a board, agency, or committee of such <br />organization, provided the following conditions are met: <br />a. The reasonable actual expenditures shall be made by a lobbyist's <br />principal, and not a lobbyist. <br />b. Any educational meeting must be attended by at least 10 or more <br />participants, have a formal agenda, and notice of the meeting has <br />been given at least 10 days in advance. <br />c. Any food, beverages, or entertainment must be provided to all <br />attendees or defined groups of 10 or more attendees. <br />d. Any entertainment must be incidental to the principal agenda of <br />the educational meeting. <br />(4) A plaque or similar nonmonetary memento recognizing individual <br />services in a field or specialty or to a charitable cause. <br />(5) Gifts accepted on behalf of the County for the benefit of the County. <br />(6) Anything generally made available or distributed to the general public <br />or all other County employees by lobbyists or lobbyist's principals. <br />(7) Gifts from the covered person's extended family, or a member of the <br />same household of the covered person. <br />(8) Gifts given to a public servant not otherwise subject to an exception <br />• under this subsection, where the gift is food and beverages, <br />transportation, lodging, entertainment or related expenses associated <br />with the public business of industry recruitment, promotion of <br />international trade, or the promotion of travel and tourism, and the <br />public servant is responsible for conducting the business on behalf of <br />the County, provided all the following conditions apply: <br />a. The public servant did not solicit the gift, and the public servant <br />did not accept the gift in exchange for the performance of the <br />public servant's official duties. <br />b. The public servant reports electronically to the Clerk to the <br />County Board of Commissioners within 30 days of receipt of the <br />gift or of the date set for disclosure of public records under <br />G.S. 132-6(d), if applicable. The report shall include a <br />description and value of the gift and a description how the gift <br />contributed to the public business of industry recruitment, <br />promotion of international trade, or the promotion of travel and <br />