(1) Persons who limit their lobbying activities to appearing before public sessions of the county council or committees of the council, or public hearings of county agencies;

(2) News or feature reporting activities and editorial comment by working members of the press, radio or television and the publication or dissemination thereof by a newspaper, book publisher, regularly published periodical, radio station, or television station;

(3) The county executive, deputy county executive and other elected county office holders;

(4) Members of the council;

(5) Persons employed by the county who aid in the preparation or enactment of county codes or perform legislative duties;

(6) Other elected officials acting on behalf of the entity they represent;

(7) Appointed officials or employees of other public entities testifying on behalf of the entity they represent;

(8) Persons who lobby without compensation or other consideration for acting as a lobbyist and whose total expenditures during any one year period for or on behalf of any county elected official, county appointed officials, or county employee in connection with such lobbying do not exceed twenty-five dollars;

(9) Persons who have not received compensation of more than $600.00 in the current calendar year for lobbying. (Added by Amended Ord. 95-056 § 10, July 19, 1995, Eff date Oct. 25, 1995; Amended by Ord. 03-067, June 18, 2003, Eff date June 30, 2003).