or "organization" defined. SECTION 5175-1. The term "committee" or "organiza- "Committee” tion" as hereinafter used, shall include every committee or combination of two or more persons co-operating to aid or promote the success or defeat of a political party or principle, or of any proposition submitted to vote at any election, any candior to aid or take part in the election or defeat of date for public office; or to aid or take part in the election or defeat of any candidate for nomination at a primary election or convention, including all proceedings prior to such primary election, or of any candidate for any office, whether public or not, to be voted for at a primary elec Statement of expenditures. Section 5175-3. Statement shall contain, what. Section 5175-4. Statement of person other than candidate. THE CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT. tion; under the primary election law; or any other organization or society soliciting or receiving money, assessments or other things of value, or in any way advocating or promoting the success or defeat of any candidate for office, or of any principal measure or proposition to be voted for at any election held in this state; but nothing herein contained shall apply to or in respect of any committee or organization for the discussion or advancement of political or economic questions. (103 v. 578.) SECTION 5175-2. Every candidate who is voted for at any election or primary election held within this state, and every person, committee or association or persons incorporated or unincorporated, who may have contributed, promised, received or expended directly or indirectly, any money or thing of value in connection with any election held in this state, shall within ten days after such election file, as hereinafter provided, an itemized statement showing in detail all the moneys or things of value, so contributed, promised, received or expended, and all liabilities directly or indirectly incurred in connection with such elections; but individuals other than candidates making only contributions, the receipt of which must be accounted for by others, need not file such statement under this section. (103 v. 578.) SECTION 3. Such statement shall contain the full name and address of the candidate, person, committee or association making the same, and the names and addresses of each candidate, person, or committee or association who contributed, promised, received or expended any money or thing of value, or incurred directly or indirectly any liability, the specific nature of such item, the purpose for which, the place where and the date when it was contributed. promised, received, expended or incurred and shall specify the balance in the hands of the accounting person, committee, association or candidate, and the disposition to be made thereof. (102 v. 321.) SECTION 4. Any individual other than a candidate who has expended any money or thing of value for or on behalf of any candidate, committee or association which may have interested itself in the election or defeat of a candidate, or measure, may, instead of filing a statement as provided in this section, and if the money or thing of value was received from a candidate, committee or association shall within five days after such election deliver to such candidate, committee or association an account stating in detail to whom, when, where, for what purpose and in what sums he paid out such money or thing of value, and such account shall be attached to and form a part of the statement to be filed by the candidate, committee or association as provided in this act. But if a candidate, committee or association cannot obtain such account from the person to whom he or they advanced any money or thing of value within the time in which such statement must be filed, such THE CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT. candidate, committee or association shall so recite in his or their statement, giving the names and addresses of the persons to whom money or things of value was advanced and who failed to account for the same, and the reasons, if any, given for such failure. (102 v. 321.) signed and SECTION 5175-5. All statements and accounts of ex- Statements penditure shall be signed and verified by the candidate, and accounts president or the duly appointed treasurer of the committee verified. or the association filing the same. The verification must show every such statement or account to be, to the affiant's own knowledge, a full and true statement or account of all contributions made or received by him, or by the committee or association of which he is a member, and of the disposition thereof made and all liabilities incurred by him or such committee or association. (103 v. 578.) SECTION 5175-6. Statements required to be filed by Where statethis section if they relate to the election of candidates for ments filed. offices to be filled by, or propositions submitted to, the electors of the entire state, or any division or district thereof greater than a county, shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state; in all other elections such statements shall be filed in the office of the board of deputy state supervisors of elections for the county in which such election is held. All such statements shall be open to public inspection and shall be retained in such office for a period of not less than four years and no fee shall be charged for filing the same. Copies of such statements, certified by the secretary of state or the clerk of the board of deputy state supervisors of elections with whom the same are filed, under seal (if any) of his office, shall be admitted as evidence in all courts with Copies as like force and effect as the original would have if produced. evidence. And said boards of deputy state supervisors of elections when such statements are herein required to be filed with them and the secretary of state when said statements are herein required to be filed with him shall file in the office of the attorney general not less than twenty days nor more than twenty-five days after any such election a report showing in detail the names of all candidates voted for at any such election or other persons required by law to file statements, who have filed their statements as herein provided, and the names of all candidates voted for at any such election or any other persons who are in default thereof. And the attorney general shall forthwith certify to the prosecuting attorney in the county where such persons are in default for statements the names of all candidates or other persons who are so in default with instructions to proceed against the delinquents. (103 v. 579.) SECTION 7. The secretary of state shall prepare a form Section 5175-7. of statement required by this act and at the expense of the Secretary of state shall furnish to the board of deputy state supervisors state shall of elections for each county, and, upon application, to any candidate, committee or other persons or organizations required to file such statement under this act. (102 v. 321.) Report to at torrex gen didates re quired to file statements. prepare form. Section 5175-8. Certificate of election shall not issue until statement is filed. Section 5175-9. Treasurer and duties of same. Section 5175-10. Records and accounts. THE CORRUPT PRACTICES ACT. SECTION 8. No board, office or officer authorized by law to issue commissions or certificates of election shall issue a commission or certificate of election to any person required by this act to file a statement or statements until such statement or statements have been so made, verified and filed by such persons as provided by this act. No person, required by this act to file a statement or statements shall enter upon the duties of any office to which he may be elected until he has filed all statements provided by this act, nor shall he receive any salary or emolument prior to the filing of the same. (102 v. 321.) SECTION 9. Every committee, association or organization subject to the provisions of this act, shall appoint ani constantly maintain a treasurer, who shall be a resident of this state, to receive, keep and disburse all sums of money which may be collected or received or disbursed by such committee, association or organization, or by any of its members, for any of the purposes mentioned in this act; and unless such treasurer is first appointed and thereafter maintained, it shall be unlawful and a violation of this act for a political committee or any of its members to collect, receive or disburse money for any such purpose. All money collected or received or disbursed by any political committee or by any member or members thereof, for any of the purposes mentioned in this act, shall be paid over and made to pass through the hands of the treasurer of such committee, and shall be disbursed by him; and it shall be unlawful and a violation of this act for any committee. association or organization, or for any member or members thereof to disburse or expend money for any of the objects or purposes mentioned in this act until the money so disbursed or expended shall have passed through the hands of the treasurer of such committee, association or organization. (102 v. 321.) SECTION 10. Every treasurer of any committee, association or organization, and every person who shall at any time act as such treasurer, shall, whenever he receives or disburses money as such treasurer, or for or on account of any of the objects or purposes mentioned in this act, immediately enter and thereafter keep, in a proper book or books to be provided and preserved by him, a full, true and detailed statement and account of each and every sum of money so received or disbursed by him, setting forth in such statement each sum so received or disbursed, the object and purpose for which it was received or disbursed, and the person from whom it was received or to whom it was disbursed, as the case may be. Every individual receiving or disbursing money aggregating more than twenty dollars, for or on account of any of the objects and purposes mentioned in this act, unless he receives it from or pays it to the treasurer of any committee, association or organization, shall in like manner keep in a book a detailed |