2016 Missouri Revised Statutes
TITLE VIII PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES, BONDS AND RECORDS (103-110)
Chapter 105 Public Officers and Employees--Miscellaneous Provisions
Section 105.963 Assessments of committees, campaign disclosure reports--notice--penalty--assessments of financial interest statements--notice--penalties--effective date.

105.963. 1. The executive director shall assess every committee, as defined in section 130.011, failing to file with a filing officer other than a local election authority as provided by section 130.026 a campaign disclosure report or statement of limited activity as required by chapter 130, other than the report required pursuant to subdivision (1) of subsection 1 of section 130.046, a late filing fee of fifty dollars for each day after such report is due to the commission, provided that the total amount of such fees assessed under this subsection per report shall not exceed three thousand dollars. The executive director shall send a notice to any candidate and the treasurer of any committee who fails to file such report within seven business days of such failure to file informing such person of such failure and the fees provided by this section.

2. Any committee that fails to file a campaign disclosure report required pursuant to subdivision (1) of subsection 1 of section 130.046, other than a report required to be filed with a local election authority as provided by section 130.026, shall be assessed by the executive director a late filing fee of one hundred dollars for each day that the report is not filed, provided that the total amount of such fees assessed under this subsection per report shall not exceed three thousand dollars. The executive director shall send a notice to any candidate and the treasurer of any committee who fails to file the report described in this subsection within seven business days of such failure to file informing such person of such failure and the fees provided by this section.

3. The executive director shall assess every person required to file a financial interest statement pursuant to sections 105.483 to 105.492 failing to file such a financial interest statement with the commission a late filing fee of ten dollars for each day after such statement is due to the commission. The executive director shall send a notice to any person who fails to file such statement informing the individual required to file of such failure and the fees provided by this section. If the person persists in such failure for a period in excess of thirty days beyond receipt of such notice, the amount of the late filing fee shall increase to one hundred dollars for each day thereafter that the statement is late, provided that the total amount of such fees assessed pursuant to this subsection per statement shall not exceed six thousand dollars.

4. Any person assessed a late filing fee may seek review of such assessment or the amount of late filing fees assessed, at the person's option, by filing a petition within fourteen days after receiving notice of assessment with the circuit court of Cole County.

5. The executive director of the Missouri ethics commission shall collect such late filing fees as are provided for in this section. Unpaid late filing fees shall be collected by action filed by the commission. The commission shall contract with the appropriate entity to collect such late filing fees after a thirty-day delinquency. If not collected within one hundred twenty days, the Missouri ethics commission shall file a petition in Cole County circuit court to seek a judgment on said fees. After obtaining a judgment for the unpaid late filing fees, the commission or any entity contracted by the commission may proceed to collect the judgment in any manner authorized by law, including but not limited to garnishment of and execution against the committee's official depository account as set forth in subsection 4 of section 130.021 after a thirty-day delinquency. All late filing fees collected pursuant to this section shall be transmitted to the state treasurer and deposited to the general revenue fund.

6. The late filing fees provided by this section shall be in addition to any penalty provided by law for violations of sections 105.483 to 105.492 or chapter 130.

7. If any lobbyist fails to file a lobbyist report in a timely manner and that lobbyist is assessed a late fee, or if any individual who is required to file a personal financial disclosure statement fails to file such disclosure statement in a timely manner and is assessed a late fee, or if any candidate or the treasurer of any committee fails to file a campaign disclosure report or a statement of limited activity in a timely manner and that candidate or treasurer of any committee who fails to file a disclosure statement in a timely manner and is assessed a late filing fee, the lobbyist, individual, candidate, or the treasurer of any committee may file an appeal of the assessment of the late filing fee with the commission. The commission may forgive the assessment of the late filing fee upon a showing of good cause. Such appeal shall be filed within ten days of the receipt of notice of the assessment of the late filing fee.

(L. 1991 S.B. 262 § 5, A.L. 1997 S.B. 16, A.L. 1999 S.B. 31 & 285, A.L. 2006 H.B. 1900, A.L. 2010 S.B. 844)

*Revisor's Note: This section was declared unconstitutional in Legends Bank v. State, see annotation below.

(2012) Senate Bill 844 provision declared unconstitutional as a violation of the original purpose requirement of Art. III, Sec. 21, Constitution of Missouri. Legends Bank v. State, 361 S.W.3d 383 (Mo. banc).