NRS281.561. Electronic filing by certain candidates for public office and certain elected public officers; exceptions; date on which statement deemed filed; access through secure website; regulations.

      1.  Except as otherwise provided in subsections 2 and 3 and NRS 281.572, each candidate for public office who will be entitled to receive annual compensation of $6,000 or more for serving in the office that the candidate is seeking, each candidate for the office of Legislator and, except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, each public officer who was elected to the office for which the public officer is serving shall file electronically with the Secretary of State a statement of financial disclosure, as follows:

      (a) A candidate for nomination, election or reelection to public office shall file a statement of financial disclosure no later than the 10th day after the last day to qualify as a candidate for the office. The statement must disclose the required information for the full calendar year immediately preceding the date of filing and for the period between January 1 of the year in which the election for the office will be held and the last day to qualify as a candidate for the office. The filing of a statement of financial disclosure for a portion of a calendar year pursuant to this paragraph does not relieve the candidate of the requirement of filing a statement of financial disclosure for the full calendar year pursuant to paragraph (b) in the immediately succeeding year, if the candidate is elected to the office.

      (b) Each public officer shall file a statement of financial disclosure on or before January 15 of:

             (1) Each year of the term, including the year in which the public officer leaves office; and

             (2) The year immediately following the year in which the public officer leaves office, unless the public officer leaves office before January 15 in the prior year.

Ê The statement must disclose the required information for the full calendar year immediately preceding the date of filing.

      2.  Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, if a candidate for public office is serving in a public office for which the candidate is required to file a statement pursuant to paragraph (b) of subsection 1 or subsection 1 of NRS 281.559, the candidate need not file the statement required by subsection 1 for the full calendar year for which the candidate previously filed a statement. The provisions of this subsection do not relieve the candidate of the requirement pursuant to paragraph (a) of subsection 1 to file a statement of financial disclosure for the period between January 1 of the year in which the election for the office will be held and the last day to qualify as a candidate for the office.

      3.  A person elected pursuant to NRS 548.285 to the office of supervisor of a conservation district is not required to file a statement of financial disclosure relative to that office pursuant to subsection 1.

      4.  A candidate for judicial office or a judicial officer shall file a statement of financial disclosure pursuant to the requirements of Canon 4I of the Nevada Code of Judicial Conduct. Such a statement of financial disclosure must include, without limitation, all information required to be included in a statement of financial disclosure pursuant to NRS 281.571.

      5.  A statement of financial disclosure shall be deemed to be filed on the date that it was received by the Secretary of State.

      6.  Except as otherwise provided in NRS 281.572, the Secretary of State shall provide access through a secure website to the statement of financial disclosure to each person who is required to file the statement with the Secretary of State pursuant to this section.

      7.  The Secretary of State may adopt regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of this section.

      (Added to NRS by 1977, 1108; A 1985, 2126; 1987, 2097; 1991, 1601; 1995, 2199; 1999, 931; 2001, 1956, 2290; 2003, 160, 3020, 3396; 2003, 20th Special Session, 265; 2005, 1579; 2007, 2738; 2011, 1729, 3309)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 281A.610)