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A. Each candidate for city council or mayor, or candidate committee, or council member or mayor, shall provide detailed itemization, as defined in the California Political Reform Act of 1974, for all contributions received in excess of twenty-five dollars.

B. Each candidate for city council or mayor, or candidate committee shall file a third pre-election Campaign Disclosure Statement (Form 460 or any successor form thereto), as provided by the California Fair Political Practices Commission for the period from the end of the period covered by the second preelection statement to eleven fifty-nine p.m. on the third business day immediately preceding election day (normally Thursday). Such statement shall be filed with the clerk of the city of Petaluma by five p.m. on the second business day immediately preceding election day (normally Friday).

C. Each candidate, and each committee making independent expenditures, who sends a mailing or distributes more than two hundred substantially similar pieces of campaign literature shall send a copy of the mailing or other literature to the city clerk at the same time the mailing or other literature is given to the post office or otherwise distributed. During the election campaign, the city clerk merely serves as a repository for such literature and shall not judge or comment on the contents of such literature.

(Ord. 2198 NCS §1 (part), 2004; Ord. 2156 NCS §1 (part), 2003.)