Missouri Laws 130.026 – Election authority defined — appropriate officer designated — electronic ..
1. For the purpose of this section, the term “election authority” or “local election authority” means the county clerk, except that in a city or county having a board of election commissioners the board of election commissioners shall be the election authority. For any political subdivision or other district which is situated within the jurisdiction of more than one election authority, as defined herein, the election authority is the one in whose jurisdiction the candidate resides or, in the case of ballot measures, the one in whose jurisdiction the most populous portion of the political subdivision or district for which an election is held is situated, except that a county clerk or a county board of election commissioners shall be the election authority for all candidates for elective county offices other than county clerk and for any countywide ballot measures.
2. The appropriate officer or officers for candidates and ballot measures shall be as follows:
Terms Used In Missouri Laws 130.026
- Appellate: About appeals; an appellate court has the power to review the judgement of another lower court or tribunal.
- candidate: includes an elected officeholder who is the subject of a recall election, an individual who seeks nomination by the individual's political party for election to public office, an individual standing for retention in an election to an office to which the individual was previously appointed, an individual who seeks nomination or election whether or not the specific elective public office to be sought has been finally determined by such individual at the time the individual meets the conditions described in paragraph (a) or (b) of this subdivision, and an individual who is a write-in candidate as defined in subdivision (28) of this section. See Missouri Laws 130.011
- committee: includes , but is not limited to, each of the following committees: campaign committee, candidate committee, continuing committee and political party committee. See Missouri Laws 130.011
- Continuing committee: includes , but is not limited to, any committee organized or sponsored by a business entity, a labor organization, a professional association, a trade or business association, a club or other organization and whose primary purpose is to solicit, accept and use contributions from the members, employees or stockholders of such entity and any individual or group of individuals who accept and use contributions to influence or attempt to influence the action of voters. See Missouri Laws 130.011
- County: any one of the several counties of this state or the city of St. See Missouri Laws 130.011
- Election: any primary, general or special election held to nominate or elect an individual to public office, to retain or recall an elected officeholder or to submit a ballot measure to the voters, and any caucus or other meeting of a political party or a political party committee at which that party's candidate or candidates for public office are officially selected. See Missouri Laws 130.011
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- measure: any proposal submitted or intended to be submitted to qualified voters for their approval or rejection, including any proposal submitted by initiative petition, referendum petition, or by the general assembly or any local governmental body having authority to refer proposals to the voter. See Missouri Laws 130.011
- Political party: a political party which has the right under law to have the names of its candidates listed on the ballot in a general election. See Missouri Laws 130.011
- Political party committee: a state, district, county, city, or area committee of a political party, as defined in section 115. See Missouri Laws 130.011
- State: when applied to any of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" includes such district and territories. See Missouri Laws 1.020
(1) In the case of candidates for the offices of governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, state treasurer, state auditor, attorney general, judges of the supreme court and appellate court judges, the appropriate officer shall be the Missouri ethics commission;
(2) Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 1 of this section, in the case of candidates for the offices of state senator, state representative, county clerk, and associate circuit court judges and circuit court judges, the appropriate officer shall be the Missouri ethics commission;
(3) In the case of candidates for elective municipal offices in municipalities of more than one hundred thousand inhabitants and elective county offices in counties of more than one hundred thousand inhabitants, the appropriate officer shall be the Missouri ethics commission;
(4) In the case of all other offices, the appropriate officer shall be the Missouri ethics commission;
(5) In the case of ballot measures, the appropriate officer or officers shall be:
(a) The Missouri ethics commission for a statewide measure;
(b) The local election authority for any political subdivision or district as determined by the provisions of subsection 1 of this section for any measure, other than a statewide measure, to be voted on in that political subdivision or district.
3. The appropriate officer or officers for candidate committees and campaign committees shall be the same as designated in subsection 2 of this section for the candidates or ballot measures supported or opposed as indicated in the statement of organization required to be filed by any such committee.
4. The appropriate officer for political party committees shall be as follows:
(1) In the case of state party committees, the appropriate officer shall be the Missouri ethics commission;
(2) In the case of any district, county or city political party committee, the appropriate officer shall be the Missouri ethics commission.
5. The appropriate officer for a continuing committee and for any other committee not named in subsections 2, 3, and 4 of this section shall be the Missouri ethics commission.
6. The term “domicile” or “domiciled” means the address of the committee listed on the statement of organization required to be filed by that committee in accordance with the provisions of section 130.021.
7. Any financial disclosure reports and statements filed with the Missouri ethics commission under this section shall be filed in an electronic format as prescribed by the commission.