(1) The municipal clerk shall:
Develop a filing and indexing system for their offices consistent with the purposes ofthis article;
Keep a copy of any report or statement required to be filed by this article for a periodof one year from the date of filing. In the case of candidates who were elected, those candidate's reports and filings shall be kept for one year after the candidate leaves office;
Make reports and statements filed under this article available to the public for inspection and copying no later than the end of the next business day after the date of filing. No information copied from such reports and statements shall be sold or used by any person for the purpose of soliciting contributions or for any commercial purpose.
Upon request by the secretary of state, transmit records and statements filed underthis article to the secretary of state;
Notify any person under their jurisdiction who has failed to fully comply with theprovisions of this article and notify any person if a complaint has been filed with the secretary of state alleging a violation of this article.
Repealed.
(2) The secretary of state shall reimburse the municipal clerk of each municipality at the rate of two dollars per candidate per election to help defray the cost of implementing this article.
Source: Initiated 96: Entire article R&RE, effective upon proclamation of the Governor, January 15, 1997. L. 2008: (1)(f) repealed, p. 350, § 2, effective April 10. L. 2009: IP(1) and (2) amended, (HB 09-1357), ch. 361, p. 1874, § 3, effective July 1.
Editor's note: This section is similar to former § 1-45-115 as it existed prior to 1996.