BOARD00489

• Board Meeting Date: 7/24/2000
• Description: Impacts of Initiative 205 on Water Districts
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

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herein, an issue of official concern shall be limited to issues that will
appear on an election ballot in the jurisdiction.

(II) Nothing in this subsection. (1) shall be construed to prevent an
elected official from expressing a personal opinion on any issue.

(III) Nothing in this subsection (1) shall be construed as prohibiting
an agency; department, board, division, bureau, commission, or council of the
state or any political subdivision thereof from:

(A) Passing a resolution or taking a position of advocacy on any issue
described in subparagraph (I) of paragraph (a) of this subsection (1); or

(8) Reporting the passage of or distributing such resolution through
established, customary means, other than paid advertising, by which
information about other proceedings of such agency, department, board,
division, bureau, or council of the state or any political subdivision thereof
is regularly provided to the public.

(e) Nothing in this subsection (1) shall be construed as prohibiting a
member or an employee of an agency, department, board, division, bureau,
commission, or council of the state or any political subdivision thereof from
expending personal funds, making contributions, or using personal time to urge
electors to vote in favor of or against any issue described in subparagraph
(I) of paragraph (a) of this subsection.

(2) .The provisions of subsection (1) of this section shall not apply to:

(a) An official residence furnished or paid for by the state or a
political subdivision;

(b) Security officers who are required to accompany a candidate or the
candidate's family; .

(c) Publicly owned motor vehicles provided for the use of the chief
executive of the state or a political subdivision;

(d) Publicly owned aircraft provided. for the use of the chief executive
of the state or of a political subdivision or the executive's family for
security purposes; except that, if such use is, in whole or in part, for
campaign purposes, the expenses relating to the campaign shall be reported and
reimbursed pursuant to subsection (3) of this section.

(3) If any candidate who is also an incumbent inadvertently or
unavoidably makes any expenditure which involves campaign expenses and
official expenses, such expenditures shall be deemed a campaign expense only,
unless the candidate, not mere than ten working days after the such
expenditure, . files with the appropriate officer such information as the
secretary of state may by rule require in order to differentiate between
campaign expenses and official expenses. Such information shall be set forth
on a form provided by the appropriate officer. In the event that public
moneys have been expended for campaign expenses and for official expenses, the

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