HomeMy WebLinkAboutMINUTES - 06132000 - C4 ORDINANCE NO. 2000-17
(Amendments to Division 530 Election Campaign)
The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors ordains as follows (omitting the parenthetical
footnotes from the official text of the enacted or amended provisions of the County Ordinance
Code).
SECTION I. SUMMARY. This ordinance amends Division 530, Election Campaign, section
530-2.902 to modify the time period for which an independent expenditure committee must
disclose its five largest contributors on the front of a mass mailing.
SECTION II. Section 530-2.902 is amended to read:
530-2902 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 non-individuals, 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
non-individuals 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"means 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
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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.)
SECTION III. EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance becomes effective 30 days after passage,
and within 15 days after passage shall be published once with the names of supervisors voting for
and against it in the Contra Costa Tames , a newspaper published in this County.
PASSED ON June 13, 2000 ,by the following vote:
AYES. Supervisors Gioia, Uilkema, DeSaulnier, Canciamilla and Gerber
NOES: None
ABSENT. None
ABSTAIN: Nene
ATTEST: PHIL BATCHELOR, Clerk of the
Board and County Administrator
Deputy Board Chair
[SEAL)
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