Sec. 1-96a. Maintenance of substantiating documents. Random audits of registrants.
Sec. 1-96a. Maintenance of substantiating documents. Random audits of registrants. (a) Each registrant shall obtain and preserve all accounts, bills, receipts and
other documents necessary to substantiate the financial reports required by section 1-96 for a period of three years from the date of the filing of the report referring to such
financial matters, provided this section shall apply to each expenditure for the benefit
of a public official of ten dollars or more and all other expenditures of fifty dollars or
more.
(b) The Office of State Ethics may require, on a random basis, any registrant to
make all such documents substantiating financial reports concerning lobbying activities
on and after October 1, 1991, available for inspection and copying by the Office of State
Ethics for the purpose of verifying such financial reports, provided no registrant shall
be subject to such requirement more than one time during any three consecutive years.
The Office of State Ethics shall select registrants to be audited by lot in a ceremony
which shall be open to the public. Nothing in this subsection shall require a registrant
to make any documents concerning nonlobbying activities available to the Office of
State Ethics for inspection and copying.
(P.A. 79-615, S. 7, 10; P.A. 81-339, S. 5, 7; P.A. 82-423, S. 4, 8; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-1, S. 13; P.A. 92-149, S.
4, 12; P.A. 05-183, S. 22.)
History: P.A. 81-339 increased amount of expenditures for which receipts must be kept from $25 to $35 or more; P.A.
82-423 increased amount from $35 to $50; June 12 Sp. Sess. P.A. 91-1 added Subsec. (b) re commission authority to
require registrant to make documents available for inspection and copying; P.A. 92-149 amended Subsec. (a) to specify
applicability to expenditures for benefit of public official of $10 or more; P.A. 05-183 amended Subsec. (b) to replace
"commission" with "Office of State Ethics" throughout the subsection, effective July 1, 2005.