(a) Not later than April 30 of each year every statutory officer, every judge of the Superior Court, and every salaried appointed officer of a public agency exempt from the Personnel Merit System shall file a report disclosing certain financial interests as provided by this subsection (a), and shall file an amendment to such report stating any new instrument of ownership acquired which would be subject to this subsection (a) if it had been a financial interest of the person disclosing at the time of his last filing. Amendments shall be filed no later than 30 days after the date of acquisition of the new instrument of ownership. The interest of a spouse or any other party, if constructively controlled by the person reporting, shall be considered to be the same as the interest of the person reporting. The report shall be in two parts as follows:
Part I
(1) List the name, instrument of ownership, and any position of management held in any business entity in which the ownership is in excess of $5,000 fair market value as of the date of filing or from which income of $1,000 or more was derived during the preceding calendar year. No time or demand deposit in a financial institution, or any debt instrument having a fixed yield need be listed unless it is convertible to any equity instrument.
(2) List the name, address and type of practice of any professional organization in which the person reporting, or his spouse, is an officer, director, or partner, or serves in any advisory capacity, from which income of $1,000 or more was derived during the preceding calendar year.
(3) List the source of each of the following items received during the preceding calendar year:
(a) any income for services rendered exceeding $5,000;
(b) any capital gain from a single source exceeding $5,000, other than from the sale of a residence occupied by the person reporting;
(c) reimbursement for expenditures exceeding $1,000 in each instance;
(d) honorariums from a single source aggregating $300 or more.
(4) List each creditor to whom the person reporting was indebted for a period of ninety consecutive days or more during the preceding calendar year in an aggregate amount in excess of $10,000, excluding any indebtedness specifically secured by the pledge of assets of the person reporting of appropriate value.
Campaign receipts shall not be included in this report. Information filed under Part I shall be maintained by the Attorney General and made available at reasonable hours to responsible public inquiry, subject to such regulations as the committee may prescribe including, but not limited to, regulations requiring identification by name, occupation, address, and telephone number of each person examining information filed under Part I, and the reason for each inquiry. The Committee shall promptly notify each person required to file a report under this subsection of each instance of an examination of his report.Part II
(1) List the fair market value (as of the date of filing) of each item listed under paragraph (1) of Part I and the income derived therefrom during the preceding calendar year.
(2) List the amount of income derived from each item listed under paragraphs (2) and (3) of Part I, and the amount of indebtedness owed to each creditor listed under paragraph (4) of Part I.
The information filed under this Part II shall be sealed by the person filing and shall remain sealed unless the Attorney General pursuant to his investigative authority, determines that the examination of such information is essential in an official investigation by the Attorney General and promptly notifies the person concerned of any such determination. The Attorney General may make public any portion of the information unsealed by the Attorney General under the preceding sentence and which the Attorney General deems to be in the public interest. A person required to file a report under this subsection who has no interests covered by any of the provisions of this subsection shall file a report, under Part I only of this subsection, so stating. In any case in which a person required to file a sealed report under Part II of this subsection is no longer required to file such a report, the Attorney General shall return to such person, or his legal representative, all sealed reports filed by such person under Part II and remaining in the possession of the Attorney General.(b) Persons required to file statements under subsection (a) of this section shall file with the Attorney General. The Attorney General shall be responsible for disseminating information concerning the statements required by this section to persons subject to the provisions of this section and shall prepare a standard reporting form.
(c) The statement required by subsection (a) of this section shall be revised each year prior to April 30th by the person filing such statement and a supplemental report shall be filed describing any changes in the statement or stating that no changes occurred if such is the case.
(d) Each candidate for public office shall file with the Supervisor of Elections within 10 days after filing his nomination petition or papers as a public record, a statement identical to the statement required by subsection (a) of this section.