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§ 84226

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(a)This section applies to any elected local government officer or candidate for elective local government office who meets both of the following criteria:
(1)The officer or candidate is required to file a report or other document required by this chapter, with their local filing officer or otherwise, but whose filing requirements do not include filing with the Secretary of State.
(2)The officer or candidate has received campaign contributions to support their candidacy for office in an upcoming election that equal or exceed fifteen thousand dollars ($15,000).
(1)Notwithstanding any other law, and subject to paragraph
(2)of this subdivision and subdivisions
(c)and (d), an elected local government officer or candidate for elective local government office specified in subdivision
(a)shall, in addition to filing with any other person required by this title, file a copy of a report or other document specified in Section 84200, 84200.5, 84203, or 84204 online or electronically with the Secretary of State through the online filing and disclosure system specified in subdivision
(b)of Section 84602.
(2)An elected local government officer or candidate for elective local government office specified in subdivision
(a)is required to file a copy of a report or other document online or electronically with the Secretary of State pursuant to paragraph
(1)only if the persons specified in subdivisions
(a)and
(e)of Section 84215 are also required to file that same category of report or other document online or electronically with the Secretary of State.
(c)By the first January 1st after the date the Secretary of State certifies an online filing and disclosure system pursuant to paragraph
(7)of subdivision
(b)of Section 84602, the Secretary of State shall submit a report to the Legislature in compliance with Section 9795 that specifies the changes to that system, if any, that are required to accommodate filings by local officers and candidates pursuant to this section. The report shall include a date by which the Secretary of State expects to certify that those changes have been made. In preparing this report, the Secretary of State shall consult with the Fair Political Practices Commission and the Department of Technology.
(d)Subdivisions
(a)and
(b)shall become operative on the first January 1st after the date the Secretary of State certifies that the changes specified in the report described in subdivision
(c)have been made.
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