state board of elections
6400 Mail Service Center
● Raleigh, NC 27699-6400
GARY O. BARTLETT Mailing
Address:
Director PO
Box 2169
Raleigh,
NC 27602-2169
(919)
733-7173
Fax
(919) 715-0135
February
28, 2001
Mr. Ferrell Blount
Southern Republican Leadership Conference 2002
PO Box 12949
Raleigh, NC 27605
Re: Southern Republican Leadership
Conference 2002
Dear Mr. Blount,
Your letter dated February 22, 2001 details the plans for the Southern Republican Leadership Conference 2002
(SRLC) and requests a ruling pursuant to G. S. 163-278.23.
Contingent upon all the assurances
and performances set out in your letter, SRLC will not be required to file a
report disclosing the finances of the conference. The more important assurances
given are as follow:
·
The SRLC will be an independent business entity with separate
accounts from the North Carolina Republican Party.
·
All funds raised from corporations will be solicited by SRLC and
spent on the actual conference.
·
The North Carolina Republican Party will collect registration
fees and will not solicit or accept any registration fees from any business
entity.
·
Any potential revenue derived by the North Carolina Republican
Party will come totally from individual participants.
The November
1, 1989 letter of this office from Executive Secretary-Director Alex K. Brock
to Mr. R. Jack Hawke and the October 31, 1989 letter of Mr. Hawke to this
office, are attached and are incorporated into this opinion by reference.
If any of the circumstances of the
2002 SRLC conference set out in your recent letter change, please contact this
office.
Sincerely,
Gary
O. Bartlett
Executive
Secretary-Director
Attachments: Your letter of February
22, 2001
Letter of Mr. Jack
Hawke of October 31, 1989
This office's
letter of November 1, 1989
cc: North Carolina Republican Party