§ 2.190.100. Officeholder accounts.

Each person holding a county office is allowed one segregated officeholder account which shall be subject to the following restrictions:

A.

No county officeholder shall accept contributions to his or her officeholder account which total more than $75,000.00 in any calendar year, after deducting therefrom the amount of any expenditures made from this account in connection with the receipt of such contributions.

B.

No county officeholder shall make expenditures from his or her officeholder account which total more than $75,000.00 in any calendar year. This $75,000.00 limit shall not include any expenditures made from this account in connection with the receipt of contributions to this account.

C.

No county officeholder who is a candidate for county office in a primary election shall make any expenditures whatsoever from his or her officeholder account during the period beginning six months prior to that primary election and ending on the day after that primary election if the officeholder is not a candidate in the general election, or ending on the day after the general election if the officeholder is a candidate in the general election.

D.

No person shall contribute to the officeholder account of any county officer in excess of $1,500.00 in any calendar year. Said amount shall be in addition to any applicable limits on campaign contributions set forth in this chapter.

E.

Unspent campaign funds related to an election to county office which were accumulated prior to November 5, 1996, may be transferred by the candidate to his or her officeholder account. After November 5, 1996, a maximum of $10,000.00 of unspent campaign funds from each primary and each general election campaign may be transferred by the candidate to his or her officeholder account. Unspent campaign funds transferred to an officeholder account as allowed by this section shall not count toward the contribution limits in this section.

F.

Officeholder account funds may be expended or disbursed for the purposes for which campaign funds may be expended or disbursed as set forth in Article 4 (beginning with Section 89510) of Chapter 9.5 of Title 9 of the Government Code, except that officeholder account funds shall only be used for expenses related to assisting, serving or communicating with constituents, or with carrying out the official duties of the elected county officer and may not be used to pay expenses related to a campaign for county office of an officeholder who is a candidate for county office.

G.

Any county officeholder who maintains an officeholder account shall report contributions to, expenditures from, and all other activities of that account in accordance with the requirements for the filing of campaign statements as set forth in Government Code Section 84200 et seq., as it is currently written or as it may be amended.

(Ord. 2011-0040 § 4, 2011: Ord. 2001-0094 § 5, 2001: Ord. 96-0041 § 1 (part), 1996.)