(a)
A ballot question committee or legislative question committee that either receives contributions or makes expenditures in excess of five hundred dollars ($500) for the purpose of expressly advocating the qualification, disqualification, passage, or defeat of a ballot question or the passage or defeat of a legislative question shall file with the Arkansas Ethics Commission financial reports as required by §§
7-9-407
-
7-9-409
.
(b)
An individual person who on his or her own behalf expends in excess of five hundred dollars ($500), excluding contributions, for the purpose of expressly advocating the qualification, disqualification, passage, or defeat of a ballot question or the passage or defeat of a legislative question shall file with the commission financial reports as required by §§
7-9-407
-
7-9-409
.
(c)
An elected official expending public funds in excess of five hundred dollars ($500) for the purpose of expressly advocating the qualification, disqualification, passage, or defeat of a ballot question or the passage or defeat of a legislative question shall file with the commission financial reports as required by §§
7-9-407
-
7-9-409
.
(d)
Except as provided in subsection (f) of this section, any report required by this subchapter shall be deemed timely filed if it is:
(1)
Hand-delivered to the commission on or before the date due;
(2)
Mailed to the commission, properly addressed, postage prepaid, bearing a postmark indicating that it was received by the post office or common carrier on or before the date due;
(3)
Received via facsimile by the commission on or before the date due, provided that the original is received by the commission within ten (10) days of the transmission; or
(4)
Received by the commission in a readable electronic format that is approved by the commission.
(e)
Whenever a report under this subchapter becomes due on a day that is a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday, the report shall be due the next day that is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday.
(f)
A preelection report is timely filed if it is received by the commission no later than seven (7) days prior to the election for which it is filed.
(g)
A final financial report as described in §
7-9-409
(a)(3)
is required regardless of whether a ballot question committee, legislative question committee, individual, or elected official received contributions or made expenditures in excess of five hundred dollars ($500).
History
Amended by
Act
2017
, No.
721
,
§
7
, eff.
8/1/2017
.
Amended by
Act
2015
, No.
226
,
§
8
, eff.
7/22/2015
.
Amended by
Act
2013
, No.
1085
,
§
1
, eff.
8/16/2013
.
Amended by
Act
2013
, No.
312
,
§
4
, eff.
8/16/2013
.
Acts 1989, No. 261, § 5; 1989, No. 634, § 5; 1993, No. 1114, § 5; 1999, No. 553, § 26; 2001, No. 1839, § 19; 2003, No. 195, § 9; 2005, No. 1765, § 4; 2007, No. 221, § 14.