Maryland Statutes
Part VIII - Expenditures -- Miscellaneous Provisions
Section 13-245 - Prohibited Expenditures

(a)    In this section, “walk-around services” means the following activities if performed for money while the polls are open:
        (1)    distributing campaign material;
        (2)    stationing a person, including oneself, or an object in the path of a voter;
        (3)    electioneering or canvassing as described in § 16-206 of this article;
        (4)    communicating in any other manner a voting preference or choice; or
        (5)    performing any other service as a poll worker or distributor of sample ballots.
    (b)    This section does not apply to:
        (1)    meals, beverages, and refreshments served to campaign workers;
        (2)    salaries of regularly employed personnel in campaign headquarters;
        (3)    media advertising, including newspaper, radio, television, billboard, or aerial advertising;
        (4)    rent and regular office expenses; or
        (5)    the cost of telephoning voters or transporting voters to and from polling places.
    (c)    (1)    A campaign finance entity, or a person acting on its behalf, may not at any time, directly or indirectly, pay or incur an obligation to pay, and a person may not, directly or indirectly, receive any money or thing of value, for a political endorsement.
        (2)    (i)    A campaign finance entity, or a person acting on its behalf, that pays any person for walk-around services shall make all payments by check from a campaign account designated under § 13-220(a) of this subtitle.
            (ii)    All payments made under subparagraph (i) of this paragraph shall be reported in accordance with § 13-304 of this title.

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