Appendix 21006. Campaign contribution disclosure.

(a)

In addition to any other report required by law to be filed, each candidate for city council shall, at the time he or she files nomination papers for such office, file with the city clerk a statement, in letter form or on a form prescribed by the city clerk for such purpose, which contains the following information (copies of previous campaign statements may be appended to the statement for the purpose of supplying the required information):

(1)

The name and address of the candidate's controlled committee;

(2)

The treasurer of such controlled committee;

(3)

The total amount of cash on hand in such committee's account as of the date of filing the statement; and

(4)

The information specified for disclosure of contributions and expenditures in subsection (c) of this section.

(b)

If the candidate filing nomination papers has not yet organized a controlled committee at the time of filing, he or she shall file the statement required by subsection (a), above, within seventy-two (72) hours of filing a statement of organization with the secretary of state's office.

(c)

Any committee not controlled by a candidate for city council that makes a contribution or independent expenditure to support or oppose a candidate or a city ballot measure shall, within seventy-two (72) hours of making such contribution or independent expenditure, file in the office of the city clerk a letter containing the name and address of the committee, the full street address of the committee, the FPPC/Secretary of State identification number of the committee, the treasurer of the committee, and the candidate(s) and/or city ballot measure(s) supported or opposed by the committee. Upon receipt of such a filing, the city clerk shall distribute copies of the letter to the affected candidates and/or committees. It shall be unlawful for any person or committee to knowingly file or publish any name or street address for a committee that is not the complete and accurate name and/or street address of the committee.

(d)

Thereafter, each candidate, controlled committee, or committee which supports or opposes a candidate or candidates for the city council shall, for each person from whom the committee has received cumulative contributions in excess of five dollars ($5.00) in connection with a single election for member of the city council, report on the committee's campaign statement the information specified for disclosure in California Government Code Section 84211(f) or any successor statute, in addition to any other information required by law to be disclosed. Such reports shall be filed pursuant to the time schedule established by the Political Reform Act and this chapter.

(e)

Any candidate or committee which is required to file preelection statements pursuant to California Government Code Section 84200.8 in connection with an election for member of the city council shall, in addition to the statements required to be filed by that section, file a preelection statement not later than twenty-six (26) days before the election which covers the period beginning forty-four (44) days before the election and ending thirty-one (31) days before the election.

(Ord. No. 163 & 163U, § 1, 7-12-89; Ord. No. 179, § 2, 1-9-91; Ord. No. 97-273U, § 5, 4-16-97; Ord. No. 03-316, § 6, 2-26-2003)

Editor's note

See editors note attached to § 21004.