§ 812. Financial disclosure for local elected officials and certain\nofficers and employees of counties, cities, towns and villages.\n 1. (a) Any political subdivision or other county, city, town or\nvillage to which all of the provisions of this section are made\napplicable, whether as the result of the provisions contained in\nsubdivision two of section eight hundred eleven of this article or as a\nresult of an election to be subject to the provisions of this section as\npermitted by subdivision two of this section, shall require (i) each of\nits local elected officials and local officers and employees, (ii) each\nlocal political party official and (iii) each candidate for local\nelected official with respect to such political subdivision, to file an\nannual statement of financial disclosure containing the information and\nin the form set forth in subdivision five of this section except that\ndisclosure requirements for assessors who are not covered by this\narticle shall be governed by the requirements of section three hundred\nthirty-six of the real property tax law. Such statement shall be filed\non or before the fifteenth day of May with respect to the preceding\ncalendar year, except that:\n (i) a person who is subject to the reporting requirements of this\nsubdivision and who timely filed with the internal revenue service an\napplication for automatic extension of time in which to file his or her\nindividual income tax return for the immediately preceding calendar or\nfiscal year shall be required to file such financial disclosure\nstatement on or before May fifteenth but may, without being subjected to\nany civil penalty on account of a deficient statement, indicate with\nrespect to any item of the disclosure statement that information with\nrespect thereto is lacking but will be supplied in a supplementary\nstatement of financial disclosure, which shall be filed on or before the\nseventh day after the expiration of the period of such automatic\nextension of time within which to file such individual income tax\nreturn, provided that failure to file or to timely file such\nsupplementary statement of financial disclosure or the filing of an\nincomplete or deficient supplementary statement of financial disclosure\nshall be subject to the notice and penalty provisions of this section\nrespecting annual statements of financial disclosure as if such\nsupplementary statement were an annual statement;\n (ii) candidates for local elected official who file designating\npetitions for nomination at a primary election shall file such statement\nwithin seven days after the last day allowed by law for the filing of\ndesignating petitions naming them as candidates for the next succeeding\nprimary election;\n (iii) candidates for independent nomination for local elected official\nwho have not been designated by a party to receive a nomination shall\nfile such statement within seven days after the last day allowed by law\nfor the filing of independent nominating petitions naming them as\ncandidates for local elected official in the next succeeding general or\nspecial or village election; and\n (iv) candidates for local elected official who receive the nomination\nof a party for a special election or who receive the nomination of a\nparty other than at a primary election (whether or not for an\nuncontested office) shall file such statement within seven days after\nthe date of the meeting of the party committee at which they are\nnominated.\n (b) As used in this subdivision, the terms "party", "committee" (when\nused in conjuction with the term "party"), "designation", "primary",\n"primary election", "nomination", "independent nomination", "ballot" and\n"uncontested office" shall have the same meanings as those contained in\nsection 1-104 of the election law.\n (c) Such statement shall be filed with the appropriate body, as\ndefined in section eight hundred ten of this article.\n (d) The appropriate body, as defined in section ei
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