2011 Vermont Code
Title 17 Elections
Chapter 59 CAMPAIGN FINANCE
§ 2831 Campaign reports; political committees and parties

§ 2831. Campaign reports; political committees and parties

(a) Each political committee and each political party which has accepted contributions or made expenditures of $500.00 or more shall register with the secretary of state stating its full name and address, the name of its treasurer, and the name of the bank in which it maintains its campaign checking account within ten days of reaching the $500.00 threshold.

(b) A political committee or political party which has accepted contributions or made expenditures of $500.00, or more, for the purpose of influencing a local election or supporting or opposing one or more candidates in a local election shall file campaign finance reports ten days before and ten days after the local election with the clerk of the municipality in which the election is held and with the secretary of state.

(c) Any formal or informal committee of two or more individuals, or a corporation, labor organization, public interest group, or other entity, not including a political party, which makes expenditures of more than $500.00 in any one calendar year for the purpose of advocating a position on a public question in any election or affecting the outcome of an election on a public question shall file a report of its expenditures 10 days before and 10 days after the election with the clerk of the municipality in which the election is held and with the secretary of state. (Added 1981, No. 197 (Adj. Sess.), { 1, eff. date, see note set out below; amended 1985, No. 198 (Adj. Sess.), §§ 16, 17; 1997, No. 64, { 14, eff. Nov. 4, 1998; 2005, No. 62, { 11.)