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Form STA -- Instruction Guide

not have authority to sign the committee’s reports or otherwise act as the committee’s campaign

treasurer. Also, the campaign treasurer, not the assistant campaign treasurer, is responsible for any

penalties imposed for failure to file a report on time or for filing an incomplete report.

TERMINATING A CAMPAIGN TREASURER APPOINTMENT. A specific-purpose committee

may terminate its campaign treasurer appointment at any time by:

1. notifying the filing authority in writing of the termination;

2. filing a campaign treasurer appointment for a successor campaign treasurer; or

3. filing a dissolution report.

Remember that once a committee’s campaign treasurer appointment is terminated, the committee

may not accept any political contributions or make any political expenditures until a new campaign

treasurer appointment is filed.

A committee’s campaign treasurer may resign by notifying both the appointing authority and the

filing authority in writing. If the campaign treasurer resigns or otherwise leaves the position, the

termination is effective on the date the committee actually receives the notice or on the date the filing

authority actually receives the notice, whichever is later (except for purposes of calculating the

period covered by the outgoing campaign treasurer’s termination report, see “Termination Report”

below.)

TERMINATION REPORT. No later than 10 days after the campaign treasurer files the

termination, the outgoing treasurer must file a SPECIFIC-PURPOSE COMMITTEE CAMPAIGN

FINANCE REPORT (Form SPAC) designated as the “10th day after campaign treasurer

termination” report. (The 10-day period is calculated beginning with the day the treasurer files the

termination, not the day the committee receives it.) If the termination occurs on the last day of a

reporting period, no separate termination report is required.

Filing a termination of a specific-purpose committee’s campaign treasurer appointment and a

termination report does not dissolve the specific-purpose committee. A specific-purpose committee

may dissolve only by filing a dissolution report. A specific-purpose committee that does not have a

campaign treasurer appointment on file may not accept political contributions or make political

expenditures.

DISSOLVING THE COMMITTEE.

The campaign treasurer of a specific-purpose committee

may file a dissolution report at any time that the committee expects no further reportable activity to

occur. Filing a dissolution report terminates the specific-purpose committee’s campaign treasurer

appointment and relieves the campaign treasurer of the obligation of filing additional reports,

including a termination report. A specific-purpose committee must file a new campaign treasurer

appointment form (STA) if it intends to accept political contributions or make political expenditures.

To dissolve the specific-purpose committee, the campaign treasurer must complete the SPECIFIC-

PURPOSE COMMITTEE CAMPAIGN FINANCE REPORT (Form SPAC), check the “Dissolution

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