Sec. 2-302. - Definitions.

(a)

"County candidate" means any person who is a candidate for county office, or is an elective county officer whether or not that elective county officer is a candidate for reelection. "County candidate" includes any person running to replace an incumbent in a recall election for county office.

(b)

"Candidate controlled committee" means any committee controlled directly or indirectly by a candidate or that acts jointly with a candidate or controlled committee in connection with the making of expenditures. A candidate controls a committee if the candidate, the candidate's agent or any other committee

controlled by the candidate has a significant influence on the actions or decisions of the committee.

(c)

"County election" means any primary election, general (runoff) election, special election or recall election for county office.

(d)

"County office" means the office of county supervisor, assessor, auditor-controller, county clerk, recorder, treasurer-tax collector, district attorney, sheriff-coroner, and superintendent of schools, including a consolidation of two (2) or more offices.

(e)

"Election cycle" means the applicable period as set forth in Section 2-305 of this article.

(f)

"Elective county officer" means any person who holds an elective county office, including a person appointed to fill a vacant elective county office.

(g)

"Indebted former candidate" means a person, other than an elective county officer, who was a candidate for a county office at any county election and who has campaign debt remaining from such election after expiration of the election cycle for the county office for which he or she was a candidate.

(h)

"Independent expenditure" means an expenditure made by any person, including a payment of public moneys by a state or local governmental agency, in connection with a communication which expressly advocates the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate or the qualification, passage or defeat of a clearly identified measure, or taken as a whole and in context, unambiguously urges a particular result in an election but which is not made to or at the behest of the affected candidate or committee.

(i)

"Person" means an individual, proprietorship, firm, partnership, joint venture, syndicate, business trust, company, corporation, limited liability company, association, committee, and any other organization or group of persons acting in concert.

(Ord. No. 6389, § I, 8-30-2022)