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 19:25-4.7 - Establishment of a legislative leadership committee

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) The
				  President of the Senate, the Minority Leader of the Senate, the Speaker of the
				  General Assembly, and the Minority Leader of the General Assembly may each
				  establish, authorize the establishment of, or designate a State political party
				  committee as a legislative leadership committee for the purpose of receiving
				  contributions and making expenditures to aid or promote candidates, or to aid
				  or promote the passage or defeat of public questions.
(b) The President of the Senate, the Minority
				  Leader of the Senate, the Speaker of the General Assembly, and the Minority
				  Leader of the General Assembly, or the person authorized by any of them to
				  establish a legislative leadership committee, shall appoint such members and
				  adopt such bylaws for the maintenance of the committee as is deemed
				  appropriate.
(c) Each legislative
				  leadership committee shall appoint an organizational treasurer and designate an
				  organizational depository no later than the date on which it first receives any
				  contribution, or makes or incurs any expenditure. If a State political party
				  committee is designated to serve as a legislative leadership committee, an
				  organizational depository separate from the organizational depository of the
				  State political party committee shall be established and be designated as a
				  depository solely for receiving funds and making expenditures of the
				  legislative leadership committee.
(d) No later than 10 days after a legislative
				  leadership committee is established, the legislative leadership committee shall
				  file a registration statement and designation of organizational depository
				  (Form D-5) containing the following information for each organizational
				  depository the legislative leadership committee has established:
1. The full name of the legislative
				  leadership committee, which name must contain the name of the legislative
				  leader who established it or authorized establishment of it;
2. The mailing address of the legislative
				  leadership committee and the name and resident address of a resident of New
				  Jersey who shall have been designated by the committee as its agent to accept
				  service of legal process;
3. The
				  name, mailing and resident address and telephone number of the person appointed
				  as organizational treasurer;
4. 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 telephone numbers of all persons
				  authorized to sign checks or otherwise make transactions;
5. The political party affiliation of the
				  legislative leadership committee, and a statement of the interests which are
				  shared by leadership, members, or financial supporters; and
6. A copy of the bylaws adopted by the
				  legislative leadership committee should be sent to the Commission under
				  separate cover, or, if none have been adopted, a statement to that
				  effect.