Section 14-104. Statements of campaign receipts, contributions, transfers and expenditures by and to candidates

1. Any candidate for election  to
  public  office,  or  for  nomination  for  public  office at a contested
  primary election or convention, or for election to a party position at a
  primary election, shall file statements sworn, or subscribed and bearing
  a form notice that false statements made therein  are  punishable  as  a
  class  A misdemeanor pursuant to section 210.45 of the penal law, at the
  times prescribed by this article setting forth the particulars specified
  by section 14-102 of this article, as to all moneys  or  other  valuable
  things,  paid,  given,  expended  or  promised  by  him  to  aid his own
  nomination or election, or  to  promote  the  success  or  defeat  of  a
  political  party,  or  to aid or influence the nomination or election or
  the defeat of any other candidate to be voted for  at  the  election  or
  primary   election  or  at  a  convention,  including  contributions  to
  political  committees,  officers,  members  or   agents   thereof,   and
  transfers,  receipts  and contributions to him to be used for any of the
  purposes above specified, or in lieu thereof,  any  such  candidate  may
  file  such  a  sworn  statement  at  the  first filing period, on a form
  prescribed by the state board of elections that such candidate has  made
  no  such expenditures and does not intend to make any such expenditures,
  except through  a  political  committee  authorized  by  such  candidate
  pursuant to this article. A committee authorized by such a candidate may
  fulfill  all  of  the  filing requirements of this act on behalf of such
  candidate.
    2. Statements  filed  by  any  political  committee  authorized  by  a
  candidate  pursuant  to  this  article  which  is  required to file such
  statements with any board of elections and which  raises  or  spends  or
  expects to raise or spend more than one thousand dollars in any calendar
  year shall file all such statements pursuant to the electronic reporting
  system  prescribed  by  the  state  board  of  elections as set forth in
  subdivision nine-A of section 3-102 of this chapter. Notwithstanding the
  provisions of this subdivision, upon the filing of a sworn statement  by
  the  treasurer  of  a  political  committee  authorized  by  a candidate
  pursuant to this article which states that such committee does not  have
  access  to the technology necessary to comply with the electronic filing
  requirements of subdivision nine-A of section 3-102 of this chapter  and
  that  filing  by  such means would constitute a substantial hardship for
  such committee, the state board of elections may issue an exemption from
  the electronic filing requirements of this article.
    3. Any committee which is required to file statements pursuant to this
  article with county boards of elections shall file in  paper  format  to
  the county board of elections or in electronic format if the legislative
  body  of  any county provides, by local law, an electronic filing system
  and shall file such statements by electronic reporting  process  to  the
  state board of elections.