The Vermont Statutes Online

Title 17 : Elections

Chapter 061 : Campaign Finance

Subchapter 002 : REGISTRATION AND MAINTENANCE REQUIREMENTS

• § 2921. Registration; candidates

  (a)(1) Each candidate who files a consent to the printing of the candidate’s name on the ballot, as provided in section 2361, 2370, 2385, or 2402 of this title, shall register with the Secretary of State prior to filing the consent stating the candidate’s full name and address, the office the candidate is seeking, and the name and address of the treasurer responsible for maintaining the checking account. A candidate’s treasurer may be the candidate or the candidate’s spouse.

  (2) A candidate’s consent, subsequently filed in accordance with section 2361, 2385, or 2402 of this title, shall state the candidate’s name the same as it appears on this registration.

  (3) Each candidate who makes an expenditure shall file with the Secretary of State, at the time of making the first expenditure, the name and address of the bank in which the candidate maintains the campaign checking account.

  (b) All expenditures by a candidate shall be paid by either a credit card or a debit card, check, or other electronic transfer from the single campaign checking account in the bank designated by the candidate under subsection (a) of this section, or, if under $250.00, the candidate may make the expenditure from cash from that campaign checking account if accompanied by a receipt, a copy of which shall be maintained by the candidate for at least two years from the end of the election cycle in which the expenditure was made. Nothing in this subsection shall be construed to prohibit the payment of fees required to be made from a separately held online account designated solely to collect campaign contributions made to the candidate.

  (c) As used in this section, “election cycle” means:

  (1) in the case of a general or local election, the period that begins 38 days after the previous general or local election for the office and ends 38 days after the general or local election for the office for which that person is a candidate, and includes any primary or run-off election related to that general or local election; or

  (2) in the case of a special election, the period that begins on the date the special election for the office was ordered and ends 38 days after that special election, and includes any special primary or run-off election related to that special election. (Added 2013, No. 90 (Adj. Sess.), § 3, eff. Jan. 23, 2014; amended 2025, No. 70, § 13, eff. June 25, 2025.)