New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Chapter 25 - REGULATIONS OF THE ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Subchapter 4 - ESTABLISHMENT OF REPORTING COMMITTEES › Section 19:25-4.5 - Establishment of a continuing political committee

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) An
				  organization shall become eligible to be certified by the Commission as a
				  continuing political committee by appointing an organizational treasurer and
				  organizational depository no later than the date on which the prospective
				  continuing political committee first receives any contribution or makes or
				  incurs any expenditure that when combined with other contributions received or
				  expenditures made in a calendar year totals $ 7,200 or more.
(b) No later than 10 days after a prospective
				  continuing political committee becomes eligible to be certified, the
				  prospective continuing political committee shall file a registration statement
				  and designation of organizational depository (Form D-4) containing the
				  following information for each organizational depository the continuing
				  political committee has established:
1. The
				  full name of the prospective continuing political committee, and identifying
				  title, if different, provided that the name or identifying title is not
				  currently in use by another continuing political committee;
2. The mailing address of the continuing
				  political committee, and the name and resident address of a resident of New
				  Jersey who is designated by the committee as the agent of the prospective
				  continuing political committee to receive service of process;
3. The name, mailing address and telephone
				  number of the person appointed as chairperson;
4. The name, mailing and resident address and
				  telephone number of the person appointed as organizational treasurer;
5. The name, mailing address and telephone
				  number of the bank at which the organizational depository has been established,
				  the account name and number, and the names, mailing addresses and phone numbers
				  of all persons authorized to sign checks or otherwise make
				  transactions;
6. The general
				  organizational category or affiliation of the prospective continuing political
				  committee, including, but not limited to: supporting or opposing a candidate or
				  public officeholder, or support of or affiliation with a business, union,
				  professional or trade association, ideological group, civic association, or
				  other entity; and
7. A descriptive
				  statement prepared by the organizers or officers that identifies:
i. The names and mailing address of all the
				  persons having control over the affairs of the prospective continuing political
				  committee, including but not limited to persons in whose name or at whose
				  direction or suggestion the committee solicits funds or makes
				  contributions;
ii. The names and
				  mailing addresses of persons not previously identified under (b)7i above who,
				  directly or through an agent, participated in the initial organization of the
				  committee;
iii. In the case of any
				  identified person who is an individual, the occupation of that individual, home
				  address, and name and mailing address of the individual's employer;
iv. In the case of any identified person that
				  is a corporation, partnership, unincorporated association, or other
				  organization, the name and mailing address of the organization; and
v. The economic, political or other
				  particular interests and objectives which the prospective continuing political
				  committee has been organized to or does advance.