§ 169.217Payment of late filing fee; disposition of late filing fees and copying charges;

unpaid filing fee; exceptions.
 Sec. 17.
    (1) A person paying a late filing fee as a result of that person's failure to file a statement or
 report shall pay that fee to the filing official with whom the statement or report was required to
 be filed.
    (2) The late filing fees collected under sections 24, 33, 34, 35, and 51, and copying charges
 collected under section 16, must be retained by and for the use of the filing officials collecting
 the fees or charges to cover their expenses in administering this act. A late filing fee assessed
 by a county clerk that remains unpaid for more than 60 days is considered a debt of the county,
 and the county treasurer shall collect that fee in the same manner as other county debts are
 collected. A late filing fee assessed by the secretary of state that remains unpaid for more than
 180 days must be referred to the department of treasury for collection.
    (3) A committee, other than a candidate committee or a committee making expenditures in
 assistance of or in opposition to the qualification, passage, or defeat of a ballot question,
 required to file with the secretary of state is not required to pay a late filing fee under sections
 24, 33, 34, and 35, if all of the following conditions are met:
    (a) A committee required to register as a committee fails to file a statement of organization.
    (b) The secretary of state sends to that committee notice of the committee's failure to file a
 statement of organization.
    (c) At the same time or after the notice described in subdivision (b) is sent, the secretary of
 state sends to that committee notice of the committee's failure to file a campaign statement that
 was due for a period that occurred before the notice of failure to file a statement of
 organization was sent.
    (d) Within 10 business days after the notice of failure to file a statement of organization is
 sent, the committee files a statement of organization.
    (e) Within 10 business days after the notice of failure to file a campaign statement is sent,
 the committee files every campaign statement that is due.




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    (4) Late filing fees that would have occurred except for subsection (3) must be assessed for
 each statement not filed before the eleventh business day after a notice of failure to file is sent
 under subsection (3).
    (5) A committee other than a candidate committee that has not previously filed a statement
 of organization is not required to pay a late filing fee under sections 24, 33, 34, and 35, if the
 committee files a statement of organization and every campaign statement that is due, before
 the secretary of state sends a notice to that committee under subsection (3).