2-10-101 - Short title Application Administration Adoption of more stringent requirements. - Tennessee Statutes

2-10-101. Short title Application Administration Adoption of more stringent requirements.

(a)  This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Campaign Financial Disclosure Act of 1980.”

(b)  The provisions of this part do not apply to any candidate for public office for which the service is part time and for which the compensation is less than five hundred dollars ($500) per month; provided, that this exemption shall not be applicable to any such candidate for a public office as a chief administrative officer or to any such candidate whose expenditures exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).

(c)  Any charter provisions of municipalities regarding campaign financial disclosures of candidates for public office apply to candidates for public office, except to the extent that such provisions are in conflict with the provisions of this part.

(d)  The registry of election finance shall have the jurisdiction to administer and enforce the provisions of this part concerning campaign financial disclosure.

(e)  Nothing in this part shall be construed as prohibiting the largest municipality located within any county having a population of not less than three hundred thirty-five thousand (335,000) nor more than three hundred thirty-six thousand (336,000), according to the 1990 federal census or any subsequent federal census, from enacting, by ordinance or charter amendment, more stringent financial disclosures of candidates for municipal local public office than those requirements imposed by the provisions of this part. A municipality adopting more stringent requirements pursuant to this chapter shall compensate the county for any additional expenses incurred by the county election commission as a result of adopting more stringent requirements.

[Acts 1980, ch. 861, § 2; 1982, ch. 689, § 11; 1984, ch. 683, §§ 1, 7; 1989, ch. 585, § 9; 1997, ch. 558, § 23; 2000, ch. 782, § 1.]