Arkansas Code
Subchapter 2 - Campaign Financing
§ 7-6-219. Retiring a campaign debt

(a)
(1) Any person who was a candidate and has a campaign debt from an election that has ended may solicit funds and hold fundraisers to retire the campaign debt.
(2) The contributions received shall be treated as campaign contributions to the person's previous campaign, and all campaign contribution limits shall continue to apply.

(b) Contributors shall be given notice that the campaign contributions are for the purpose of retiring a campaign debt. Any invitation to or notice of a fundraiser to retire a campaign debt of a previous campaign shall state that the funds are to retire a campaign debt.
(c) A person shall file a campaign contribution and expenditure report concerning a campaign debt if, since the last report concerning the debt, the person has received cumulative contributions in excess of five hundred dollars ($500). The report shall be filed not later than fifteen (15) days after a calendar quarter in which a report becomes required. No report is required in any calendar quarter in which the cumulative contribution or cumulative expenditure limit has not been exceeded since the person's last report.

Structure Arkansas Code

Arkansas Code

Title 7 - Elections

Chapter 6 - Campaign Practices

Subchapter 2 - Campaign Financing

§ 7-6-201. Definitions

§ 7-6-202. Penalties

§ 7-6-203. Contributions — Limitations — Acceptance or solicitation — Use as personal income — Disposition

§ 7-6-204. Restriction on cash contributions or expenditures — Exception

§ 7-6-205. Contributions made indirectly, anonymously, or under assumed names

§ 7-6-206. Records of contributions and expenditures

§ 7-6-207. Reports of contributions — Candidates for state or district office

§ 7-6-208. Reports of contributions — Candidates for school district, township, or municipal office

§ 7-6-209. Reports of contributions — Candidates for county office

§ 7-6-210. Reports of contributions — Personal loans

§ 7-6-213. Verification of reports

§ 7-6-214. Publication of reports

§ 7-6-215. Registration and reporting by approved political action committees

§ 7-6-216. Registration and reports by exploratory committees

§ 7-6-217. Creation of Arkansas Ethics Commission

§ 7-6-218. Citizen complaints — Definition

§ 7-6-219. Retiring a campaign debt

§ 7-6-220. Reporting of independent expenditures

§ 7-6-222. Tax credits for certain individual political contributions

§ 7-6-223. Reports of contributions by political parties

§ 7-6-224. Authority of local jurisdictions

§ 7-6-225. Filing deadlines

§ 7-6-226. Registration and reporting by county political party committees

§ 7-6-227. Registration by independent expenditure committee

§ 7-6-228. Campaign signs and materials

§ 7-6-229. Amendment of reports — Affirmative defense

§ 7-6-230. Alternative to electronic filing of reports

§ 7-6-231. Alternative to electronic filing — Reporting of independent expenditures — Registration and reports for political action committees