Chapter 49, LAW
285 sections in this chapter.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1437 Official in the legislative branch, defined.
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Official in the legislative branch shall mean a member or member-elect of the Legislature, a member of an official body established by and responsible to the Legislature, or employee thereof other than an individual employed by the state in a clerical or nonpolicymaking capacity.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1438 Person, defined.
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Person shall mean a business, individual, proprietorship, firm, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, syndicate, business trust, labor organization, company, corporation, association, committee, or other organization or group of persons acting jointly.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1439 Political merchandise, defined.
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Political merchandise shall mean goods such as bumper stickers, pins, hats, beverages, literature, or other items sold by a person at a fundraiser or to the general public for publicity or for the purpose of raising funds to be used in supporting or opposing a candidate for nomin…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1440 Political party, defined.
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Political party shall mean a political party which has a right under law to have the names of its candidates listed on the ballot in a general election.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1441 Political party committee, defined.
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Political party committee shall mean a state central, district, or county committee of a political party which is a committee.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1441.01 Preliminary activity, defined.
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Preliminary activity includes conducting a poll or focus group, drafting proposed language, making telephone calls, sending or receiving electronic mail, and traveling in connection with a ballot question.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1442 Public employee, defined.
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Public employee shall mean an employee of the state or a political subdivision thereof.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1443 Public official, defined.
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Public official shall mean an official in the executive branch, an official in the legislative branch, or an elected or appointed official in the judicial branch of the state government or a political subdivision thereof; any elected or appointed member of a school board; and an …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1443.01 Relative, defined.
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Relative shall mean any person related to another by blood or marriage to the third degree of consanguinity, including a foster parent, foster child, stepparent, stepchild, and adopted children and their adoptive parents.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1444 State elective office, defined.
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State elective office shall mean the office of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, Auditor of Public Accounts, State Treasurer, Attorney General, member of a board or commission with one or more election districts of more than one county, and member of the Legislat…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1445 Candidate for office; candidate committee; slate or team; committee; when formed; violation; penalty.
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(1) A candidate shall form a candidate committee upon raising, receiving, or expending more than five thousand dollars in a calendar year. (2) A candidate committee may consist of one member with the candidate being the member. (3) A person who is a candidate for more than one of…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1446 Committee; treasurer; depository account; contributions and expenditures; requirements; reports; commingling funds; violations; penalty.
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(1) Each committee shall have a treasurer who is a qualified elector of this state. A candidate may appoint himself or herself as the candidate committee treasurer. (2) Each committee shall designate one account in a financial institution in this state as an official depository f…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1446.01 Committee; certain expenditure of funds authorized.
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(1) No committee, other than a political party committee, may expend funds except to make an expenditure, as defined in subsection (1), (2), or (3) of section 49-1419, or as provided in section 49-1446.03 or 49-1469.06. (2) A candidate committee of an officeholder may make expend…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1446.02 Committee; certain expenditure of funds; prohibited.
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Notwithstanding any other provision of the Nebraska Political Accountability and Disclosure Act, no committee shall expend funds for the purchase or payment of: (1) Clothes or medical or dental expenses of a candidate or the members of his or her immediate family; (2) Installment…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1446.03 Committee; expenditure of funds; authorized.
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Except as otherwise provided in the Nebraska Political Accountability and Disclosure Act, any committee may, in addition to the expenditures set forth in section 49-1446.01, make expenditures for: (1) The necessary continued operation of the campaign office or offices of the cand…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1446.04 Candidate committee; loans; restrictions; civil penalty.
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(1) A candidate committee shall not accept more than fifteen thousand dollars in loans prior to or during the first thirty days after formation of the candidate committee. (2) After the thirty-day period and until the end of the term of the office to which the candidate sought no…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1447 Committee treasurer; statements or reports; duties; committee records; violation; penalty.
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(1) The committee treasurer shall keep detailed accounts, records, bills, and receipts necessary to substantiate the information contained in a statement or report filed pursuant to sections 49-1445 to 49-1479.02 or rules and regulations adopted and promulgated under the Nebraska…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1448 Commission; rules; purpose.
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The commission shall promulgate rules for the withdrawal of funds from a committee account for petty cash expenditures and for keeping records of the withdrawals.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1449 Committee; statement of organization; filing; procedure; late filing fees.
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(1) Each committee shall file a statement of organization pursuant to this section and pay a registration fee pursuant to section 49-1449.01 with the commission. Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, such statement of organization shall be filed and fee paid withi…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1449.01 Committee; statement of organization; registration fee; failure to perfect filing; effect.
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(1) At the time that each committee files its statement of organization pursuant to section 49-1449, the committee shall pay to the commission a registration fee of one hundred fifty dollars. The filing of a statement of organization is not perfected unless accompanied by the reg…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1450 Committee; statement of organization; contents, enumerated.
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The statement of organization required by section 49-1449 shall include the following information: (1) The name, street address, and telephone number, if any, of the committee. The committee address may be the home address of the candidate or treasurer of the committee; (2) The n…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1451 Statement of organization; change; late filing fee.
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When any of the information required in a statement of organization is changed, such change shall be reported when the next campaign statement is required to be filed. Any person who fails to report a change to the commission under this section shall pay to the commission a late …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1453 Committee; dissolution; procedure.
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(1) A committee may be dissolved by the filing of a statement of dissolution with the commission, the payment of all fees, penalties, and interest which may be owed, and complying with the rules and regulations of the commission for dissolution of committees. Except as otherwise …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1454 Committee; campaign statement; filing; period covered.
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Any committee which supports or opposes a candidate or the qualification, passage, or defeat of a ballot question shall file a legibly printed or typed campaign statement pursuant to sections 49-1459 and 49-1461. The period covered by a campaign statement is the period beginning …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1455 Committee campaign statement; contents.
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(1) The campaign statement of a committee, other than a political party committee, shall contain the following information: (a) The filing committee's name, address, and telephone number and the full name, residential and business addresses, and telephone numbers of its committee…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1456 Committee account; income; how treated; loans.
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(1) Any income received by a committee on an account consisting of funds or property belonging to the committee shall not be considered a contribution to the committee but shall be reported as income. Any interest paid by a committee shall be reported as an expenditure. (2) A loa…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1457 Political party committee; campaign statement; contents, enumerated; contribution and expenditure information.
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(1) The campaign statement filed by a political party committee shall contain the following information: (a) The full name and street address of each person from whom contributions totaling more than two hundred fifty dollars in value are received in a calendar year, the amount, …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1458 Late contribution; how reported; late filing fee.
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(1) A committee which receives a late contribution shall report the contribution to the commission by filing a report within two days after the date of its receipt. The report may be filed by hand delivery, facsimile transmission, express delivery service, or any other written me…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1459 Campaign statements; filing schedule; statement of exemption.
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(1) Except as provided in subsection (2) of this section, campaign statements as required by the Nebraska Political Accountability and Disclosure Act shall be filed according to the following schedule: (a) A first preelection campaign statement shall be filed not later than the t…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1461 Ballot question committee; campaign statement; filing dates; certification by committee's treasurer; required.
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(1) In addition to the campaign statements required to be filed pursuant to sections 49-1459 and 49-1462, a ballot question committee shall file a campaign statement as required by the Nebraska Political Accountability and Disclosure Act according to the following schedule: (a) T…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1461.01 Ballot question committee; surety bond; requirements; violations; penalty.
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(1) A ballot question committee shall file with the commission a surety bond running in favor of the State of Nebraska with surety by a corporate bonding company authorized to do business in this state and conditioned upon the payment of all fees, penalties, and interest which ma…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1462 Committee; campaign statement; when filed; period covered.
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Unless otherwise required to file an election campaign statement as required by section 49-1459, a committee shall file a campaign statement with a closing date of December 31 of such year not later than January 31 of the following year. The period covered by the campaign stateme…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1463 Campaign statement; statement of exemption; violations; late filing fee.
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(1) Any person who fails to file a campaign statement with the commission under sections 49-1459 to 49-1463 shall pay to the commission a late filing fee of fifty dollars for each day the campaign statement remains not filed in violation of this section, not to exceed one thousan…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1463.01 Late filing fee; relief; reduction or waiver; when.
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(1) A person required to pay a late filing fee imposed under section 49-1449, 49-1458, 49-1463, 49-1467, 49-1469.08, 49-1478.01, or 49-1479.01 may apply to the commission for relief. The commission by order may reduce the amount of a late filing fee imposed and waive any or all o…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1463.02 Late filing fees and civil penalties; interest.
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Interest shall accrue on all late filing fees and civil penalties imposed under the Nebraska Political Accountability and Disclosure Act at the rate specified in section 45-104.02, as such rate may from time to time be adjusted. The interest shall begin to accrue thirty days afte…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1464 Campaign statements of committees; where filed.
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The campaign statement of any committee, including a candidate committee, a ballot question committee, or a political party committee, shall be filed with the commission.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1465 Campaign statement; verification statement; signature; requirements.
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(1) A campaign statement filed by a committee shall: (a) Be signed by the committee treasurer; and (b) Contain a verification statement which states that the treasurer used all reasonable diligence in its preparation, that to the treasurer's knowledge it is true and complete, and…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1466 Dissolved candidate committee; unexpended funds; how treated.
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Any person, who after being a candidate for office dissolves the candidate committee as provided in section 49-1453, may transfer any unexpended funds from such committee to another candidate committee, a political party committee, or a tax-exempt charitable institution or may re…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1467 Person; independent expenditure report; when filed; contents; late filing fee; violation; penalty.
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(1) Any person, other than a committee, who makes an independent expenditure advocating the election of a candidate or the defeat of a candidate's opponents or the qualification, passage, or defeat of a ballot question, which is in an amount of more than two hundred fifty dollars…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1468 Contribution or expenditure made by a dependent minor; contribution controlled by another; how reported.
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(1) Any contribution or expenditure made by a dependent minor shall be reported in the name of the minor's parent or guardian. (2) Any contribution which is controlled by, or made at the direction of, another person, including a parent organization, subsidiary, division, committe…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1469 Businesses and organizations; contributions, expenditures, or services; report; contents; separate segregated political fund; when required.
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(1) A corporation, labor organization, industry, trade, or professional association, limited liability company, or limited liability partnership, which is organized under the laws of the State of Nebraska or doing business in this state and which is not a committee, may: (a) Make…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1469.05 Businesses and organizations; separate segregated political fund; restrictions.
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(1) An entity specified in subsection (1) of section 49-1469 which establishes and administers a separate segregated political fund: (a) Shall not make an expenditure to such fund, except that it may make expenditures and provide personal services for the establishment and admini…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1469.06 Businesses and organizations; separate segregated political fund; contributions and expenditures; limitations.
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(1) All contributions to and expenditures from a separate segregated political fund shall be limited to money or anything of ascertainable value obtained through the voluntary contributions of the employees, officers, directors, stockholders, or members of the corporation, includ…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1469.07 Businesses and organizations; separate segregated political fund; status.
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A separate segregated political fund is hereby declared to be an independent committee and subject to all of the provisions of the Nebraska Political Accountability and Disclosure Act applicable to independent committees, and the entity which establishes and administers such fund…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1469.08 Businesses and organizations; late filing fee; violation; penalty.
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(1) Any entity specified in subsection (1) of section 49-1469 which fails to file a report with the commission required by section 49-1469 or 49-1469.07 shall pay to the commission a late filing fee of fifty dollars for each day the statement remains not filed in violation of suc…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1470 Campaign statements; public information; copies, cost; duration kept.
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(1) Campaign statements shall be open for public inspection and reproduction, commencing as soon as practicable, but not later than the fifth business day following the day on which they were received, during regular business hours. (2) Copies of statements or parts of statements…
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1471 Contribution or expenditure in excess of fifty dollars; not to be made in cash; violation; penalty.
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A contribution or expenditure of more than fifty dollars shall not be made or accepted in cash. Contributions and expenditures of more than fifty dollars, other than an in-kind contribution or expenditure, shall be made by written instrument containing the names of the payor and …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1472 Anonymous contribution; restrictions on use; other contributions; how treated; violation; penalty.
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(1) A person shall not accept or expend an anonymous contribution. An anonymous contribution received by a person shall not knowingly be deposited but shall be given to a tax-exempt charitable organization. The charitable organization receiving the contribution shall provide the …
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1473 Contributions; legal name of contributor; violation; penalty.
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A contribution shall not be made, directly or indirectly, by any person in a name other than the name by which that person is identified for legal purposes. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a Class III misdemeanor.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 49-1474 Political newsletter or mass mailing; not to be sent at public expense; violation; penalty.
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No political newsletter or other campaign mass mailing shall be sent at public expense by or on behalf of any elected official after that person has announced his or her candidacy for any office. An elected official violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a Cl…