Kansas Statutes 25-2436. Transparency in revenues underwriting elections act; prohibiting receipt and expenditure of certain moneys by election officials; penalty
Terms Used In Kansas Statutes 25-2436
- Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Election: means any primary, general or special election of national, state, county, township, school or city officers or officers of any other subdivision of the state, or any question submitted election held at any time whether the same be upon a constitutional amendment, authority to issue bonds by the state or any subdivision thereof or any other special question whatsoever. See Kansas Statutes 25-2408
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories. See Kansas Statutes 77-201
(a) The provisions of this section shall be known and may be cited as the transparency in revenues underwriting elections act.
(b) As used in this section:
(1) “Election official” means any county election officer or the chief state election official, as such terms are defined in Kan. Stat. Ann. § 25-2504, and amendments thereto, and any officer or employee of such election official.
(2) “Person” means any individual, corporation, partnership, company, organization, political party, political committee or any other private entity.
(c) No election official shall knowingly accept or expend any moneys, directly or indirectly, from any person, except as provided in any acts of appropriation or as otherwise provided by law, for any expenditures related to conducting, funding or otherwise facilitating the administration of an election pursuant to law.
(d) The provisions of this section shall not apply to:
(1) Any moneys collected by an election official from the payment of fees or assessed costs as required by law; or
(2) any moneys received as campaign contributions for any candidate for the office of county clerk.
(e) A violation of this section is a severity level 9, nonperson felony.