4 Pa. Code § 177.2 - Form and content of reports
(a) The
Campaign Finance Reports shall be filed on the current version of Form
DSEB-502, which may be obtained from the Secretary or any county board of
elections.
(b) The Campaign Finance
Report, to be signed and sworn to by the individual submitting the report,
shall include the following:
(1) The full
name, mailing address, occupation and name of employer, if any, or the
principal place of business, if self-employed, of each person who has made one
or more contributions to or for the committee or candidate within the reporting
period in an aggregate amount or value in excess of $250, together with the
amount and date of the contributions. The accuracy of the information furnished
to the candidate or committee shall be the responsibility of the
contributor.
(2) The full name and
mailing address of each person who has made one or more contributions to or for
the committee or candidate within the reporting period in an aggregate amount
or value in excess of $50, together with the amount and date of the
contributions. The accuracy of the information furnished by the contributor
shall be the responsibility of the contributor.
(3) The total sum of individual contributions
made to or for the committee or candidate during the reporting period and not
reported under paragraphs (1) and (2).
(4) Every expenditure, the date made, the
full name and address of the person to whom made, and the purpose for which the
expenditure was made. Each Campaign Finance Report of a political committee
shall itemize only those expenditures made to influence the election or defeat
of a candidate for nomination or election in this Commonwealth or a question
appearing on the ballot in this Commonwealth and all other expenditures made
outside this Commonwealth, not relevant to elections within this Commonwealth,
shall be aggregated and reported as one lump sum.
(5) Unpaid debts and liabilities, with the
nature and amount of each, the date incurred and the full name and address of
the person owed.
(6) The account
shall include an unexpended balance of contributions or other receipts
appearing from the last account filed.
(7) In addition, the Independent Expenditure
Reports on the current version of Form DSEB-505, as described in §
177.9 (relating to official forms),
filed by persons making independent expenditures shall contain the name of the
candidates or questions supported or opposed.
(c) Receipted bills are required as follows:
(1) Each candidate or committee treasurer
shall retain a receipted bill from the person to whom the expenditure is made
by or on behalf of the political committee or candidate in excess of
$25.
(2) The receipted bill shall
contain the following:
(i) The identification
of the person to whom the expenditure is made.
(ii) The amount of the
expenditures.
(iii) The particulars
of the expenditures.
(iv) The date
the expenditures were made.
(3) When a receipted bill is not available,
the treasurer may retain the following:
(i)
The cancelled check showing payment of the bill.
(ii) The bill, invoice or other
contemporaneous memorandum of the transaction supplied to the committee by the
payee containing the same information as referred to in paragraph
(2).
(iii) Both.
(d) A person may
inspect or copy the vouchers, or copies of vouchers, for expenditures itemized
in a Campaign Finance Report by filing a written request, with the appropriate
supervisor, after the filing date for the report. The supervisor shall notify
the candidate or committee treasurer of the request and the candidate or
committee treasurer shall either forward the vouchers, or copy of the vouchers,
to the supervisor or make the vouchers, or copy of the vouchers, available to
the requesting person.
(e) Each
Campaign Finance Report shall contain a summary, on a separate page, of the
information required by subsection (b).
(f) Each Campaign Finance Report of a
political committee created solely for the purpose of influencing an election
on behalf of a single candidate shall be accompanied by an affidavit of the
candidate. The affidavit shall affirm that, to the best of the candidate's
knowledge, the political committee has not violated the act of October 4, 1978
( P. L. 893, No. 171).
Notes
The provisions of this § 177.2 amended under section 201(a) of the Pennsylvania Election Code (25 P. S. § 2621(a)).
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