(a) All candidates and elected officials for city office, and any appointed city officials as directed by resolution of the board of aldermen, shall be required to file, under penalty of perjury, a financial disclosure statement setting forth any interest which they have in any real property within the city or any property which at the time of the statement is proposed for annexation into the city and any interest they may have in any business entity doing business within the city.
(b) The financial disclosure statement shall be filed in the office of the city treasurer no later than thirty (30) days after the passage of this section* and the resolution provided for in paragraph (a) above and thereafter not later than thirty (30) days prior to the first Tuesday in November of each year beginning in the year 1975.
(c) Such disclosure statement shall also be filed by any person appointed by the city board of aldermen to fill a vacancy in any city office before he or she assumes the office.
(d) The statements shall be kept on file as a public record for at least three (3) years from the date of filing.
(e) The term “interest” and the term “business entity” as used herein shall be defined in accordance with the provisions of article 33, section 29-2 of the Annotated Code of Maryland, 1957 Edition, as amended.
(f) The failure to comply with the provisions of this section shall constitute a misdemeanor and shall be punishable by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) and/or imprisonment for not more than thirty (30) days. (Ord. No. G-75-1, § 1)

* Editor’s note--The ordinance from which this section derives was passed January 16, 1975.