1. Appointment of treasurer. A committee required to register under section 1052?A shall appoint a treasurer before registering with the commission.

[PL 2021, c. 217, §6 (NEW).]

Terms Used In Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1054

  • Campaign: means any course of activities to influence the nomination or election of a candidate or to initiate or influence any of the following ballot measures:
A. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1052
  • Commission: means the Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election Practices established under Title 1, section 1002. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1001
  • Committee: means any political action committee or ballot question committee and includes any agent of a political action committee or ballot question committee. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1052
  • Influence: means to promote, support, oppose or defeat. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1052
  • Initiate: includes the collection of signatures and related activities to qualify a state or local initiative or referendum for the ballot. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1052
  • may: when used in this Title, is used in a permissive sense to grant authority or permission, but not to create duty, to act in the manner specified by the context. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 7
  • Question: means any proposition submitted to the voters. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1
  • Register: means to enlist as a voter. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1
  • Treasurer: means a person appointed by a candidate or a political committee to accept or disburse money to promote or defeat a candidate, party or principle. See Maine Revised Statutes Title 21-A Sec. 1
  • 2. Segregated campaign account. A committee registered under section 1052?A shall establish a separate account in a bank or other financial institution, referred to in this section as a “campaign account.” The committee shall deposit all funds contributed to or received by the committee for the purpose of initiating or influencing a campaign in the campaign account and shall finance all of the committee’s expenditures to initiate or influence the campaign through the campaign account. If a business or corporate entity has established the committee, the campaign account must be segregated from the general treasury funds of the entity that established the committee. If the committee is established by one or more individuals, the campaign account must be segregated from and not commingled with the personal funds of those individuals.

    [PL 2021, c. 217, §6 (NEW).]

    3. Exceptions. The commission may adopt procedures by rule for waiving the requirement under subsection 2 to maintain a segregated campaign account upon a showing by a committee that a separate account would be administratively burdensome, including but not limited to committees organized outside this State or an individual who registers as a ballot question committee. If the committee was formed by another organization, that other organization may pay its employees for their campaign-related activities on behalf of the committee through its own treasury, rather than the campaign account. Rules adopted pursuant to this subsection are routine technical rules as defined by Title 5, chapter 375, subchapter 2?A.

    [PL 2021, c. 217, §6 (NEW).]

    SECTION HISTORY

    PL 1985, c. 161, §6 (NEW). PL 2007, c. 443, Pt. A, §30 (AMD). PL 2013, c. 334, §22 (AMD). PL 2019, c. 563, §7 (AMD). PL 2021, c. 217, §6 (RPR).