1. (a) A ballot question committee or a legislative question committee which either receives contributions or makes expenditures in excess of five hundred dollars ($500) for the purpose of expressly advocating the qualification, disqualification, passage, or defeat of a ballot question or the passage or defeat of a legislative question shall file with the Arkansas Ethics Commission financial reports as required by 7 CAR §§ 7-109 – 7-111.
2. (b) An individual person who on his or her own behalf expends in excess of five hundred dollars ($500), excluding contributions, for the purpose of expressly advocating the qualification, disqualification, passage, or defeat of a ballot question or the passage or defeat of a legislative question shall file with the commission financial reports as required by 7 CAR §§ 7-109 – 7-111.
3. (c) An elected official expending public funds in excess of five hundred dollars ($500) for the purpose of expressly advocating the qualification, disqualification, passage, or defeat of a ballot question or the passage or defeat of a legislative question shall file with the commission financial reports as required by 7 CAR §§ 7-109 – 7-111.

4. (d) Except as provided in subsection (f) of this section, any report required by this part shall be deemed timely filed if it is:

   1. (1) Hand delivered to the commission on or before the date due;
   2. (2) Mailed to the commission, properly addressed, postage prepaid, bearing a postmark indicating that it was received by the post office or common carrier on or before the date due;
   3. (3) Received via facsimile by the commission on or before the date due, provided that the original is received by the commission within ten (10) days of the transmission; or
   4. (4) Received by the commission in a readable electronic format which is approved by the commission.
5. (e) Whenever a report under this part becomes due on a day which is a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday, the report shall be due the next day which is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday.
6. (f) A preelection report is timely filed if it is received by the commission no later than seven (7) days prior to the election for which it is filed.
7. (g) A final financial report as described in 7 CAR § 7-111(a)(3) is required regardless of whether a ballot question committee, legislative question committee, individual, or elected official received contributions or made expenditures in excess of five hundred dollars ($500).

Codification Notes: This section as promulgated prior to the codification of the Code of Arkansas Rules contained a footnote to subsection (g) of this section following the phrase “elected official” as follows: “See Footnote 1.”