Section 265 - Submission of and access to lobbying disclosures(a) The Secretary of State shall provide on his or her website an online database of the lobbying disclosures required under this chapter. (1) In this database, the Secretary shall provide digital access to each form he or she shall provide to enable a person to file the statements or reports required under this chapter. Digital access shall enable such a person to file these lobbying disclosures by completing and submitting the disclosure to the Secretary of State online.(2) The Secretary shall maintain on the online database all disclosures that have been filed digitally on it so that any person may have direct machine-readable electronic access to the individual data elements in each disclosure and the ability to search those data elements as soon as a disclosure is filed.(b) Any person required to file a disclosure with the Secretary of State under this chapter shall sign it, declare that it is made under the penalties of perjury, and file it digitally on the online database.Added 1989, No. 160 (Adj. Sess.), § 2, eff. 4/30/1990; amended 1993, No. 101, § 3a; 2007, No. 5 , § 5, eff. 4/12/2007; 2015, No. 49 , § 5.