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 Oklahoma Statutes (Last Updated: September 18, 2014)
 Title 51. OFFICERS

  § 51-310. Contributions to and expenditures by candidates and committees - Reporting requirements.  

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  • A.  If a candidate or committee has accepted one or more contributions, or made one or more expenditures during a reporting period, the designated agent shall be required to file a complete written report of all contributions and expenditures as provided for in the Political Subdivisions Ethics Act.  If a candidate or committee has not accepted any contributions and has made no expenditures during a reporting period, the designated agent shall file a statement of inactivity.

    B.  Every candidate or candidate committee for county office and every committee, except for committees supporting or opposing municipal or school board candidates, which receives a contribution which exceeds Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) in a campaign shall file reports with the Ethics Commission.  Every candidate or candidate committee for local office other than county office shall file reports with the clerk of the appropriate political subdivision.

    C.  Every candidate and committee shall report the sources of each contribution which exceeds Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) in the aggregate during the campaign or calendar year.

    D.  Every committee, except for candidate committees, that makes a contribution to another candidate or committee in an amount which exceeds Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) in the aggregate during the campaign or calendar year shall report the contribution as an expenditure as provided by Section 28 of this act; provided, this subsection shall not authorize any contribution otherwise prohibited by law.  A committee shall not make a contribution in cash.  A committee shall not make a contribution, other than in kind, except by written instrument containing the name of the donor and the name of the payee.

    E.  If a contributor makes more than one contribution to a candidate or committee and any of such contributions are of a value less than Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) in the aggregate during the campaign a calendar year, then such contributions shall be reported whenever the aggregate value or amount of such contributions and the theretofore unreported contributions to such candidate or committee exceeds Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00).

    F.  Contributions of a value Two Hundred Dollars ($200.00) or less during the reporting period shall be reported as one aggregate total without identifying the contributors thereof.  All corporate contributions to a committee or person for or against a state question shall be segregated from, and may not be commingled with, a fund established by such person or committee to contribute to candidates or committees which support or oppose candidates.

    G.  Expenditures made by a candidate or candidate committee from the candidate's own funds including, but not limited to, any funds loaned by a bank, savings and loan association or credit union, and on the candidate's own behalf, shall not be considered as contributions but shall be reported as expenditures.

Added by Laws 1995, c. 343, § 24, eff. July 1, 1995.