Each state officecandidate and the candidate’s personal campaign committee is active and subject to interim reporting requirements until:
Terms Used In Utah Code 20A-11-205
Candidate: means any person who:
(a)
files a declaration of candidacy for a public office; or
(b)
receives contributions, makes expenditures, or gives consent for any other person to receive contributions or make expenditures to bring about the person's nomination or election to a public office. See Utah Code 20A-11-101
Convention: means the political party convention at which party officers and delegates are selected. See Utah Code 20A-1-102
Person: means both natural and legal persons, including individuals, business organizations, personal campaign committees, party committees, political action committees, political issues committees, and labor organizations, as defined in Section 20A-11-1501. See Utah Code 20A-11-101
Personal campaign committee: means the committee appointed by a candidate to act for the candidate as provided in this chapter. See Utah Code 20A-11-101
State: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes a state, district, or territory of the United States. See Utah Code 68-3-12.5
State office: means the offices of governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, state auditor, and state treasurer. See Utah Code 20A-11-101
State office candidate: means a person who:
(a)
files a declaration of candidacy for a state office; or
(b)
receives contributions, makes expenditures, or gives consent for any other person to receive contributions or make expenditures to bring about the person's nomination, election, or appointment to a state office. See Utah Code 20A-11-101
Summary report: means the year end report containing the summary of a reporting entity's contributions and expenditures. See Utah Code 20A-11-101
Vacancy: means :
(a)
except as provided in Subsection (75)(b), the absence of an individual to serve in a position created by state constitution or state statute, whether that absence occurs because of death, disability, disqualification, resignation, or other cause ; or
(b)
in relation to a candidate for a position created by state constitution or state statute, the removal of a candidate due to the candidate's death, resignation, or disqualification. See Utah Code 20A-1-102
(a)
the candidate withdraws or is eliminated in a convention or primary; or
(b)
if seeking appointment as a midterm vacancystate office candidate:
(i)
the political party liaison fails to forward the person‘s name to the governor; or
(ii)
the governor fails to appoint the person to fill the vacancy.
(2)
Each state office candidate and the candidate’s personal campaign committee is active and subject to year-end summary reporting requirements until the candidate has filed a statement of dissolution with the lieutenant governor stating that:
(a)
the state office candidate or the personal campaign committee is no longer receiving contributions and is no longer making expenditures;
(b)
the ending balance on the last summary report filed is zero and the balance in the separate bank account required in Section 20A-11-201 is zero; and
(c)
a final summary report in the form required by Section 20A-11-203 showing a zero balance is attached to the statement of dissolution.
(3)
A statement of dissolution and a final summary report may be filed at any time.
(4)
Each state office candidate and the candidate’s personal campaign committee shall continue to file the year-end summary report required by Section 20A-11-203 until the statement of dissolution and final summary report required by this section are filed with the lieutenant governor.
