Ohio Administrative Code › Title 111:2 - Campaign Finance › Chapter 111:2-4 - Contributions; Campaign Finance Statements › Section 111:2-4-09 - Short form statements

Current through all regulations passed and filed through July 1, 2024
(A) No campaign committee is required to file
			 a postprimary election campaign finance statement required under division
			 (A)(2) of section
			 3517.10
			 of the Revised Code if, during the combined pre-election and postelection reporting periods, the
			 committee received contributions of five hundred dollars or less and made
			 expenditures of five hundred dollars or less. Instead, the campaign committee
			 may file a short-form statement as prescribed by the secretary of state. The
			 statement shall indicate the total amount of contributions received and
			 expenditures made and the balance on hand, and shall be signed under penalty of
			 election falsification. If either the contributions received or the
			 expenditures made during this period exceed five hundred dollars, the campaign
			 committee must file the postprimary election statement required by division
			 (A)(2) of section
			 3517.10
			 of the Revised Code that includes all the information required in divisions (B)
			 and (C) of section
			 3517.10
			 of the Revised Code.
(B) No
			 campaign committee is required to file a postgeneral election campaign finance
			 statement required by division (A)(2) of section
			 3517.10
			 of the Revised Code if, during the combined preprimary, postprimary,
			 pregeneral, and postgeneral election periods, it received contributions and
			 made expenditures of five hundred dollars or less. Instead, the campaign
			 committee may file a short-form statement as prescribed by the secretary of
			 state. The statement shall indicate the total amount of contributions received
			 and expenditures made and the balance on hand, and shall be signed under
			 penalty of election falsification. If either the contributions received or the
			 expenditures made during the combined periods exceed five hundred dollars, the
			 campaign committee shall file the postgeneral election statement required by
			 division (A)(2) of section
			 3517.10
			 of the Revised Code that includes all the information required in divisions (B)
			 and (C) of section
			 3517.10
			 of the Revised Code.
(C) Paragraphs
			 (A) and (B) of this rule do not apply if a campaign committee makes
			 expenditures prior to the first day of January of the year of the election at
			 which the candidate seeks nomination or election to office or if the campaign
			 committee does not file a termination statement with its postprimary election
			 statement in the case of an unsuccessful primary election candidate or with its
			 postgeneral election statement in the case of other candidates.
(D) If a campaign committee of a successful
			 candidate at a primary election has filed a short form in accordance with this
			 rule, then the first statement that committee files in regard to the general
			 election shall reflect all contributions received and all expenditures made
			 during the preprimary and postprimary election periods.
(E) A campaign committee of a candidate that
			 was unsuccessful in its effort to obtain its party's nomination to office and
			 that fails to terminate may not file a short form statement for the postprimary
			 election statement required under division (A)(2) of section
			 3517.10
			 of the Revised Code as provided in this rule, regardless of the amount of
			 contributions received and expenditures made. Instead such campaign committee
			 must file the statements required by divisions (A)(1) and (A)(2) of section
			 3517.10
			 of the Revised Code.
(F) A campaign
			 committee of a candidate that was unsuccessful in its effort to seek election
			 to office and that fails to terminate may not file a short form statement as
			 provided in this rule, regardless of the amount of contributions received and
			 expenditures made. Instead such campaign committee must file the statements
			 required by divisions (A) (1) and (A)(2) of section
			 3517.10
			 of the Revised Code.