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A. Each candidate and each committee shall file no fewer than two campaign statements prior to an election, excluding run-off elections, and one campaign statement following the election, excluding run-off elections. Campaign statements shall be filed in accordance with the filing dates prescribed by state law. The semi-annual campaign statement that is filed pursuant to state law following an election shall serve as the post-campaign statement required by this section. If state law does not establish the filing dates for campaign statements, the commission shall set the necessary filing dates.

B. Each candidate and committee involved in a run-off election, and each committee supporting or opposing a candidate participating in a run-off election, shall file one campaign statement prior to the run-off election in addition to any other campaign statements required by this section and one campaign statement following the run-off election. The semi-annual statement that is filed pursuant to state law following a run-off election shall serve as the post-campaign statement required by this section. The campaign statements shall be filed in accordance with the filing dates prescribed by state law. If state law does not establish the filing dates for campaign statements in run-off elections, the commission shall set the necessary filing dates.

C. 

1. Notwithstanding subsections A and B of this section, a candidate or officeholder who plans to receive contributions or make expenditures of less than the committee threshold in Section 2.12.095 in a calendar year may file a short form campaign statement for that calendar year as prescribed by state laws and regulations. The period covered by the short form is the calendar year. If the candidate or officeholder who has filed a short form campaign statement for activity in the calendar year makes expenditures or receives contributions that exceed the committee threshold in Section 2.12.095, they must file campaign statements as required by subsections A or B, or other applicable sections of Chapter 2.12.

2. During the six months prior to an election in which the candidate or officeholder is being voted upon, a candidate or officeholder who files a short form campaign statement and subsequently receives contributions or makes expenditures exceeding the committee threshold in Section 2.12.095 during the calendar year shall send written notification to the City Clerk, and each candidate or officeholder contending for the same office, as follows:

(a) The notification shall be sent within forty-eight hours of receiving contributions or making expenditures exceeding the committee threshold in Section 2.12.095;

(b) The notification shall include the name and address of the candidate or officeholder, the elective office for which the short form campaign statement was filed, the date of the election, and the date contributions exceeding the committee threshold in Section 2.12.095 or more were received or expenditures exceeding the committee threshold in Section 2.12.095 were made;

(c) The notification shall be sent by guaranteed overnight delivery, personal delivery, or facsimile transmission. (Ord. 7889-NS § 2, 2023: Ord. 6329-NS § 2, 1996: Ord. 4700-NS § 410, 1974)