Sacramento Municipal Code Art. IV Filing and Disclosure Requirements

A. Whenever any elected city officer, candidate or committee is required to file California Form 460 under the Political Reform Act and Regulations with the city clerk, the information reported shall include information per election to date.

B. Whenever any elected city officer, candidate or committee is required to file a campaign statement under the Political Reform Act or the Regulations with the city clerk, the elected officer, candidate, or committee shall file at the same time a copy of the statement in an electronic format prescribed by the city clerk, provided that the clerk has prescribed the format at least 60 days before the statement is due. If no format has been prescribed in a timely manner, the elected city officer, a candidate or committee shall file the statement in a format suitable for electronic scanning. The provisions of this subsection shall apply only to persons or combinations of persons who qualify as a committee under Section 82013 of the Political Reform Act.

C. Any statement, report, or other document filed electronically or online pursuant to this section need not be filed in paper format. The statement, report, or other document shall be electronically submitted no later than midnight on the established filing date. (Ord. 2017-0027 § 7; Ord. 2015-0018 § 2; Ord. 2005-072 § 8; Ord. 2000-048 § 1)

Any person or organization who makes independent expenditures of more than $5,000 in support of or in opposition to any candidate for city office shall notify the city clerk, the candidate who is the subject of the expenditure, and all other candidates of such expenditure or expenditures by email, guaranteed overnight mail through the United States Postal Service or equivalent private delivery service, or personal delivery within 24 hours. Such notification shall be made each time this threshold of five thousand dollars $5,000 is met. For purposes of this section, expenditures made during the primary and general election periods shall be accumulated and notice shall be given each time the $5,000 threshold is reached, regardless of whether $5,000 is spent in a single election period. (Ord. 2017-0027 § 8; Ord. 2005-072 § 10; Ord. 2000-048 § 1)

A. If the expenditure for a broadcast or mass mailing advertisement that expressly advocates the election or defeat of any candidate is an independent expenditure, the committee shall include on the advertisement the names of the two persons making the largest cumulative contributions to the committee making the independent expenditure. If an acronym is used to specify any committee names in this section, the names of any sponsoring organization of the committee shall be printed on print advertisements or spoken in broadcast advertisements. For the purposes of determining the two contributors to be disclosed, the contributions of each person to the committee making the independent expenditure during the one-year period before the election shall be aggregated.

B. Any broadcast or mass mailing advertisement by an independent expenditure committee that expressly advocates the election or defeat of any candidate shall clearly state that the advertisement is authorized and paid for by a committee independent of the candidate.

C. The disclosures required by subsections A and B must be in compliance with Government Code sections 84506.5 and 84507, and any Regulations related to those sections. (Ord. 2017-0027 § 9; Ord. 2000-048 § 1)