§ 169.236Filing copies of campaign statements with secretary of state and county clerks;

availability to public.
 Sec. 36.
    (1) A candidate committee for a state elective office or a judicial office shall file a copy of
 the campaign statement required under this act with the secretary of state. The secretary of
 state shall reproduce the copy and transmit the reproduction to the clerk of the county of
 residence of the candidate.
    (2) A ballot question committee supporting or opposing a statewide ballot question shall file
 a copy of the campaign statement required under this act with the secretary of state and with
 the clerk of the most populous county in the state. Except as otherwise provided in this
 subsection, a ballot question committee supporting or opposing a ballot question to be voted
 upon in more than 1 county, but not statewide, shall file a copy of the campaign statement
 required under this act with the clerk of the county in which the greatest number of registered
 voters eligible to vote on the ballot question reside. Except as otherwise provided in this
 subsection, a ballot question committee supporting or opposing a ballot question to be voted
 upon within a single county shall file a copy of the campaign statement required under this act
 only with the clerk of that county. If a ballot question committee is registered with the
 secretary of state and is supporting or opposing a nonstatewide ballot question, that ballot
 question committee is only required to file the campaign statement required under this act with
 the secretary of state.


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    (3) A political party committee shall file a copy of the campaign statement required under
 this act with the secretary of state. The secretary of state shall reproduce a copy of the
 campaign statement of a political party committee that is a county committee and file the copy
 with the clerk of the county where the county committee operates.
    (4) A committee supporting or opposing a candidate for local elective office, if the office is
 to be voted on in more than 1 county but not statewide, shall file a copy of the campaign
 statement required under this act with the clerk of the county in which the greatest number of
 registered voters eligible to vote on the office reside.
    (5) If a committee is registered with the secretary of state and is supporting or opposing the
 recall of a local elective officeholder, that committee is only required to file the campaign
 statement required under this act with the secretary of state.
    (6) A committee not covered under subsection (1), (2), (3), (4), or (5) shall file a copy of the
 campaign statement required under this act with the secretary of state, except that a committee
 reporting contributions or expenditures for a candidate within only 1 county shall file a
 statement only with the clerk of that county.
    (7) A local unit of government that receives copies of campaign statements under this
 section shall make the statements available for public inspection and reproduction during
 regular business hours of the local unit of government. The local unit of government shall
 make the statements available as soon as practicable after receipt, but not later than the third
 business day following the day on which they are received.