2014 Oklahoma Statutes
Title 74E. Ethics Rules
Rule 257:10-1-10. Campaign depositories and campaign accounts.
(a) A committee, other than an out-of-state committee, shall establish one or more campaign depositories:
(1) in financial institutions that ordinarily conduct business within the state; and
(2) in offices located within the state that ordinarily conduct business with the general public.
(b) The committee shall maintain a campaign account in each depository in the name of the committee, with no use of acronyms permitted.
(c) Expenditures of a committee of more than fifty dollars ($50), except for expenditures made by the candidate from his or her own funds, shall be drawn from a campaign account and issued on a check signed by the candidate, treasurer or, in the treasurer's absence, the deputy treasurer or the chair of said committee.
(d) All contributions, other than in-kind contributions, accepted by the committee, directly or indirectly, shall be deposited in a campaign account within ten (10) days after acceptance. All contributions received by a deputy treasurer or agent of the committee, including the candidate, on behalf of a committee shall be provided to the treasurer or, in the treasurer's absence, the deputy treasurer not later than five (5) days after receipt.
(e) A committee shall be required to disclose the location of its campaign account or accounts to the Commission.
(f) Except for a corporation, labor organization or a committee formed solely to make independent expenditures or electioneering communications, an out-of-state committee or person, accepting donations from other persons and making independent expenditures or electioneering communications with respect to elections governed by this chapter, shall make such independent expenditures and electioneering communications from a segregated account.
Such out-of-state committee or person shall be required to disclose the location of the account to the Commission. The reports required by paragraph (2) of subsection (c) of Section 13 of this chapter or paragraphs (2) and (3) subsections (a) and (b) of Section 16 of this chapter shall be made with respect to the account required by this subsection.
Amended Laws 1995. Amended Laws 2007. Amended Laws 2010. Amended Laws 2013.
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