Arkansas Statutes § 7-9-406 Financial reports - Requirement

Statute Text

(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.

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