25-4147. Treasurer; accounts required; inspection; all receipts to be forwarded to treasurer; commingling of funds prohibited; contributions from political committees to be accompanied by name or desc

25-4147

Chapter 25.--ELECTIONS
Article 41.--ELECTION CAMPAIGN FINANCE; GENERAL

      25-4147.   Treasurer; accounts required; inspection; all receipts to beforwarded to treasurer; commingling of funds prohibited; contributions frompolitical committees to be accompanied by name or description of interestgroup with which affiliated.(a) Every treasurer shall keep detailed accounts of all contributionsand other receipts received and all expenditures made by or on behalf ofthe treasurer's candidate or committee.

      (b)   Accounts of any treasurer may be inspected under conditionsdetermined by the commission, and shall be preserved for a period to bedesignated by the commission.

      (c)   An individual may serve as treasurer for a candidate,candidate committee, party committee or political committee or of anytwo or more such committees or candidates.

      (d)   Every person who receives a contribution for a candidate, candidatecommittee, party committee or political committee more thanfive days prior to the ending date of any period for which a reportis required by K.S.A. 25-4148, and amendments thereto,on demand of the treasurer, or in any event on or before the ending dateof the reporting period, shall remit the same and render to the treasureranaccount thereof, including the amount, the name and address of theperson, if known, making the contribution and the date received.

      (e)   No contribution or other receipt received by a candidate,candidate committee, party committee or political committee shall becommingled with personal funds of the candidate or the treasurer orother officers or members of such committee.

      (f)   No candidate, candidate committee, party committee or politicalcommittee shall receive any contribution or other receipt from a politicalcommittee unless accompanied by the full name of the organization with whichthe political committee is connected or affiliated or, name or descriptionsufficiently describing the affiliation or, if the political committee isnot connected or affiliated with any one organization, the trade, professionor primary interest of the political committee asreflected by the statement of purpose of such organization.

      History:   L. 1981, ch. 171, § 6; L. 1984, ch. 145, § 5;L. 1998, ch. 117, § 7; July 1.