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7-9-404. Filing deadlines.
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7-9-404. Filing deadlines.
(a)(1)(A) A ballot question committee or a legislative question committee shall file a statement of organization with the Arkansas Ethics Commission within five (5) days of receiving contributions or making 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.
(B) The commission shall maintain the statement of organization until notified of the committee's dissolution.
(2) A ballot question committee or legislative question committee failing to file a statement of organization required by this section shall be subject to a late filing fee not exceeding fifty dollars ($50.00) for each day the statement remains not filed.
(b) The statement of organization for a ballot question committee as defined in § 7-9-402(2)(A) or a legislative question committee as defined in § 7-9-402(10)(A) shall include the following information:
(1) The name, the street address, and where available, the telephone number of the committee. A committee address and telephone number may be that of the residence of an officer or a director of the committee;
(2) The name, street address, and if available, the telephone number of the treasurer and other principal officers and directors of the committee;
(3) The name and address of each financial institution in which the committee deposits money or anything else of monetary value;
(4) The name of each person who is a member of the committee. A person that is not an individual may be listed by its name without also listing its own members, if any; and
(5) A brief statement identifying the substance of each ballot question, the qualification, dis
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 7-9-404
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7-9-404. Filing deadlines.
(a)(1)(A) A ballot question committee or a legislative question committee shall file a statement of organization with the Arkansas Ethics Commission within five (5) days of receiving contributions or making 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.
(B) The commission shall maintain the statement of organization until notified of the committee's dissolution.
(2) A ballot question committee or legislative question committee failing to file a statement of organization required by this section shall be subject to a late filing fee not exceeding fifty dollars ($50.00) for each day the statement remains not filed.
(b) The statement of organization for a ballot question committee as defined in § 7-9-402(2)(A) or a legislative question committee as defined in § 7-9-402(10)(A) shall include the following information:
(1) The name, the street address, and where available, the telephone number of the committee. A committee address and telephone number may be that of the residence of an officer or a director of the committee;
(2) The name, street address, and if available, the telephone number of the treasurer and other principal officers and directors of the committee;
(3) The name and address of each financial institution in which the committee deposits money or anything else of monetary value;
(4) The name of each person who is a member of the committee. A person that is not an individual may be listed by its name without also listing its own members, if any; and
(5) A brief statement identifying the substance of each ballot question, the qualification, disqualification, passage, or defeat of which the committee seeks to influence or of each legislative question, the passage or defeat of which the committee seeks to influence, and if known, the date each ballot or legislative question shall be presented to a popular vote at an election.
(c) The statement of organization for a ballot question committee as defined in § 7-9-402(2)(B) or a legislative question committee as defined in § 7-9-402(10)(B) shall include:
(1)(A) The name, the street address, and if available, the telephone number of the committee.
(B) The address and telephone number of a committee in subdivision (c)(1)(A) of this section may be that of the residence of an officer or a director of the committee;
(2) The name, street address, and if available, the telephone number of the treasurer and the other principal officers and directors of the committee;
(3) The name and address of each financial institution in which the committee deposits money or anything else of monetary value;
(4)(A) The name of each person who is a member of the committee.
(B) A person that is not an individual may be listed by its name without also listing its own members, if any; and
(5) A brief statement identifying the substance of each ballot question, the qualification, disqualification, passage, or defeat of which the committee seeks to influence, and if known, the date each ballot or legislative question shall be presented to a popular vote at an election.
(d) When any of the information required in a statement of organization is changed, an amendment shall be filed within ten (10) days to reflect the change, except that changes in individual membership may be filed when the next financial report is required. A committee failing to file a change as required shall be subject to a late filing fee not exceeding twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for each day the change remains not filed.
(e) Upon dissolution, a ballot question committee or a legislative question committee shall notify the commission in writing. Any remaining funds on hand at the time of dissolution shall be turned over to either:
(1) The Treasurer of State for the benefit of the General Revenue Fund Account of the State Apportionment Fund;
(2) An organized political party as defined in § 7-1-101 or a political party caucus of the General Assembly, the Senate, or House of Representatives;
(3) A nonprofit organization that is exempt from taxation under § 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986;
(4) Cities of the first class, cities of the second class, or incorporated towns; or
(5) The contributors to the ballot or legislative question committee.
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
7-1-101. Definitions.
As used in this title, unless the context or chapter otherwise requires:
(1) “Administrator” means the administrative head of a long-term care or residential care facility licensed by the state who is authorized in writing by a patient of the long-term care or residential care facility to deliver the application for an absentee ballot and to obtain or deliver the absentee ballot to the county clerk;
(2) “Affidavit of eligibility” means an affidavit signed by a candidate for elective office stating that the candidate is eligible to serve in the office he or she seeks;
(3) “Audit log” means an electronically stored record of events and ballot images from which election officials may produce a permanent paper record with a manual audit capacity for a voting system using voting machines;
(4) “Authorized agent” means a person who is identified and authorized to deliver the application, obtain a ballot, and deliver the ballot on the day of the election to the county clerk for an applicant who is medically unable to cast a ballot at a polling site due to an unforeseen medical necessity as set forth in an affidavit from the administrator of a hospital or long-term care or residential care facility;
(5) “Canvassing” means examining and counting the returns of votes cast at a public election to determine authenticity;
(6) “Certificate of choice” means a certificate, signed by an executive officer of a political group that submits a petition to place its candidates for President and Vice-President on the ballot, designating the names of its candidates to appear on the ballot;
(7) “Constitutional officers of this state” means the offices of the Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, Auditor of State, T
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 7-1-101
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Arkansas Code — all titles (historical 2020) · legal_authorities
7-9-402. Definitions.
As used in this subchapter:
(1) “Ballot question” means a question in the form of a statewide, county, municipal, or school district initiative or referendum which is submitted or intended to be submitted to a popular vote at an election, whether or not it qualifies for the ballot;
(2)(A) “Ballot question committee” means any person, located within or outside Arkansas, that receives contributions for the purpose of expressly advocating the qualification, disqualification, passage, or defeat of any ballot question, or any person, other than an elected official expending public funds, or an individual, located within or outside Arkansas, who makes expenditures for the purpose of expressly advocating the qualification, disqualification, passage, or defeat of any ballot question.
(B) A person other than an individual or an approved political action committee as defined in § 7-6-201, located within or outside Arkansas, also qualifies as a ballot question committee if two percent (2%) or more of its annual revenues, operating expenses, or funds are used to make a contribution or contributions to another ballot question committee and if the contribution or contributions exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000) in value;
(3)(A) “Contribution” means, whether direct or indirect, advances, deposits, transfers of funds, contracts, or obligations, whether or not legally enforceable, payments, gifts, subscriptions, assessments, payment for services, dues, advancements, forbearance, loans, pledges, or promises of money or anything of value, whether or not legally enforceable, to a person 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.
(B
Source: Arkansas Code — historical release 78 (November 6, 2020) · 7-9-402
Stored review status: Historical 2020-11-06 source release; later amendments not reconciled; machine-extracted, not independently legally reviewed; source heading status: text_in_historical_source. The source passage cites 7-9-402. This identifies an authority to review, not proof of applicability.