§ 530-2.902. Disclosure of contributors to independent expenditure committees.

(a)

Any committee that makes, during the calendar year in which the election is held, more than one thousand dollars in independent expenditures for or against a candidate for county office or more than five thousand dollars in independent expenditures for or against the qualification, or passage, of a local ballot measure being voted on only in this county shall list the following information in a clear and legible manner on the bottom one-third of the front page of any mass mailing (delivered to residences by any means including hand delivery) by the committee in the election for which the independent expenditures were made.

(1)

The names and occupations of individuals and the names and business interests of nonindividuals, of the five largest contributors to the committee during the twelve months immediately preceding the date of distribution of the mass mailing, listed in order of the amount of contributions. If two or more of the largest contributors have contributed the same amount, they shall be listed according to chronological sequence of contribution. The disclosure shall read: "Major funding by: (name and occupation or business interest)." In the case of contributions from committees, the disclosure shall read: "Major funding by: (name of committee); Expenditures directed by: (name and occupation or business interest of persons or nonindividuals who direct or control the expenditures of the committee)"; and

(2)

If the committee has received at least one-third of its total contributions during the twelve months immediately preceding the date of distribution of the mass mailing from large out-of-county contributor(s), the whole top one-third of the disclosure shall state "Major funding from large out-of-county contributors." "Large out-of-county contributors" mean those contributors (a) who either are not residents of the county or do not have a principal place of business in the county and (b) whose cumulative contributions to the committee are one hundred dollars or more for the twelve-month period immediately preceding the date of distribution of the mass mailing.

(b)

When making the disclosures required in subsection (a)(1), the committee must use the same type size for all words in that disclosure. When making the disclosures required in subsection (a)(2), the committee must use the same type size for all words in that disclosure. The left and right and top and bottom margins of the disclosures shall not exceed one-half-inch. The space between lines of type shall not be more than one-half of the type size. The committee must list each contributor on a new line. The committee shall use the bottom one-third of the front page of the mass mailing solely for the purpose of making the disclosure required in subsection (a).

(c)

For purposes of this section "front page" shall mean the envelope, page, or panel where the address is, or in the case of unaddressed items, any outside panel.

(d)

This section does not apply to communications from an organization to its members.

(Ords. 2000-17 § 2, 98-6, 95-8).