Orange County Municipal Code Art. 2 Electronic Campaign Disclosure

(a) Any County candidate or elective County officer, or his or her controlled committee, who is required by the Political Reform Act to file a campaign disclosure statement or report with the Registrar of Voters and receives contributions or loans totaling more than two thousand dollars ($2,000.00) in an election cycle, as defined in section 1-6-7 of the Orange County Campaign Reform Ordinance, shall only file a copy of the statement or report in an electronic format with the Registrar of Voters. No paper copy of the statement or report filed electronically shall be submitted to the Registrar of Voters.

(b) Any committee or other person, who is required by the Political Reform Act to file a campaign disclosure statement or report with the Registrar of Voters and makes independent expenditures of more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) in an election cycle, as defined in section 1-6-7 of the Orange County Campaign Reform Ordinance, shall only file a copy of the statement or report in an electronic format with the Registrar of Voters. No paper copy of the statement or report filed electronically shall be submitted to the Registrar of Voters.

(c) All other candidates and officers, and their controlled committees, and any other committee or person, not included in subsections (a) and (b), who are required by the Political Reform Act to file a campaign disclosure statement or report with the Registrar of Voters may file a copy of the statement or report electronically, in the format prescribed by the Registrar of Voters.

(d) Once a County candidate or elective County officer, or his or her controlled committee, is subject to the electronic filing requirements imposed by subsections (a) and (b), every statement or report filed thereafter shall also be filed electronically.

(e) Each campaign disclosure statement and report filed pursuant to subsections (a), (b) and (c) shall be maintained in an electronic database that is searchable by the public. Information that is protected from disclosure by State law shall not be available to the public.

(f) The requirements of this section shall not abrogate any requirements in the Political Reform Act that paper originals and copies be filed.

(Ord. No. 08-014, § 1, 10-21-08; Ord. No. 16-004, § 3, 6-7-16; Ord. No. 18-004, § 1, 8-28-18)

Editor's note— Former § 1-6-32. See editor's note § 1-6-16.