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Section 1 - Definitions - Section 1. For the purpose of this chapter, unless a...
Section 2 - Accounts of Contributions and Expenditures; Violations; Penalties - Section 2. Every candidate shall keep detailed accounts of all...
Section 3 - Director of Campaign and Political Finance; Selection; Term; Powers and Duties; Judicial Review of Decisions; Procedure for Violations; Penalties; Disclosure of Fund Transfers - Section 3. The state chairman of each of the two...
Section 5 - Political Committees; Statement of Organization; Officers; Duties; Expenditures; Incorporation; Penalties - Section 5. Each political committee shall organize by filing with...
Section 5a - Elected Public Officials; Principal Officers of Political Action Committees - Section 5A. No candidate or individual holding elective public office...
Section 5b - Names or Phrases Identifying Political Committees in Organizational Statements - Section 5B. (a) Every political committee, other than a political...
Section 5c - Online Training Program for Treasurers of Political Committees - Section 5C. The office of campaign and political finance shall...
Section 6 - Restrictions on Expenditures; Penalties - Section 6. A political committee organized or operating on behalf...
Section 6a - Contributions From Political Action Committees; Limitations - Section 6A. A candidate and such candidate's committee shall not...
Section 6b - Ballot Question Committee; Contributions - Section 6B. A ballot question committee may receive, pay and...
Section 7 - Receipts, Disbursements and Contributions Regulated; Limitations; Penalties - Section 7. No person or combination of persons, including a...
Section 7a - Campaign Contributions to Candidates From Individuals; Limitation; Contributions From Legislative and Executive Agents; Contributions From Gaming Licensee - Section 7A. (a)(1) An individual may make campaign contributions to...
Section 8 - Political Contributions by Corporations; Penalties - Section 8. No corporation carrying on the business of a...
Section 8a - Media Organization Offering Time and Space to Qualified Candidates at No Cost or Reduced Price; Limitations - Section 8A. (1) As used in this section the following...
Section 9 - Contributions and Expenditures Over $50 or $100; Use of Credit or Debit Card by Committee; Penalties - Section 9. No individual, candidate or political committee, or person...
Section 9a - Contributions by Electronic Means; Acceptance by Political Action Committees; Authorization Cards - Section 9A. A political action committee may accept contributions of...
Section 9b - Joint Contributions to Be Attributed Equally to Each Contributor When Unspecified; Rules and Regulations for Joint Contributions - Section 9B. (a) Any joint contribution received by a candidate...
Section 10 - Name and Address of Donor; Disclosure; Penalties - Section 10. No person shall, directly or indirectly, make a...
Section 10a - Treatment of Contributions to Candidates Through Intermediaries or Conduits - Section 10A. (a) Contributions made by a person to or...
Section 11 - Solicitations From Candidates Prohibited; Exception; Penalties - Section 11. No person, no political committee and no person...
Section 12 - Soliciting of Money for Nomination Papers Prohibited; Penalties - Section 12. No political committee, and no person acting under...
Section 13 - Solicitation or Receipt of Political Campaign Contributions by Appointive Public Officers or Employees Prohibited; Exception; Penalties - Section 13. No person employed for compensation, other than an...
Section 14 - Soliciting Contributions in Public Buildings Prohibited; Penalties - Section 14. No person shall in any building or part...
Section 15 - Political Contributions by Public Officers or Employees Restricted; Penalties - Section 15. No officer, clerk or other person in the...
Section 16 - Requiring Political Contributions or Services of Persons in Public Service Prohibited; Penalty - Section 16. No person in the public service shall, for...
Section 16a - Obligation to Make Political Contribution or Render Political Service; Penalty - Section 16A. No person doing business with the commonwealth shall,...
Section 16b - Obligation to Make Political Contributions or Render Political Service by Persons Employed for Compensation; Penalties - Section 16B. No person employed for compensation shall be under...
Section 17 - Public Service Status of Officers or Employees Protected Relative to Political Contributions; Penalty - Section 17. No officer or employee of the commonwealth or...
Section 18 - Reports of Contributions and Expenditures; Persons Required to File; Contents; Reporting Periods; Time Limits; Penalties - Section 18. (a) Each candidate and each treasurer of a...
Section 18a - Reports of Independent Expenditures - Section 18A. (a) Every individual, group, association, corporation, labor union,...
Section 18b - Candidate or Elected Official Sponsoring Fund Raising Event on Behalf of Non-Resident Candidate; Reports of Contributions; Penalty - Section 18B. Each candidate or elected official who sponsors a...
Section 18c - Electronic Reporting System for Campaign Finance Reports and Financial Activity Statements - Section 18C. (a) The director shall develop an electronic reporting...
Section 18d - Expenditures Paid by or to Vendors on Behalf of Political Committee or on Behalf of Individual or Group Required to File Report of Ballot Question Expenditures - Section 18D. (a) For the purposes of this section the...
Section 18e - Legal Defense, Inauguration or Recount Funds - Section 18E. (a) Legal defense funds may be created by...
Section 18f - Electioneering Communication Expenditures - Section 18F. Every individual, group, association, corporation, labor union or...
Section 18g - Independent Expenditure or Electioneering Communication; Disclosure Statement Regarding Identity of Financially Responsible Individual or Entity; Form; Disclosure of Top Contributors; Penalty for Violation - Section 18G. An independent expenditure or electioneering communication made by...
Section 19 - Campaign Funds; Designation of Depository - Section 19. (a) Candidates for state office or for county...
Section 22 - Persons or Corporations Making Contributions; Filing of Reports With Director; Penalties - Section 22. Any person or the treasurer of a corporation,...
Section 22a - Expenditures for Political Purpose; Report; Punishment for Violation; Examination of Accounts - Section 22A. The treasurer of any city, town, or other...
Section 23 - Persons Acting for Political Committees; Accounts and Vouchers to Treasurers - Section 23. Whoever, acting under the authority or in behalf...
Section 24 - Place for Filing Statements or Reports; Signing - Section 24. If the statement or report required to be...
Section 25 - Preservation of Statements and Reports by Director; Public Inspection and Reproduction - Section 25. The director shall retain all statements and reports...
Section 26 - Preservation of Statements and Reports by City or Town Clerk; Public Inspection and Reproduction; Posting of Campaign Finance Reports Required by Sec. 18 on Website - Section 26. The city or town clerk shall retain all...
Section 27 - Furnishing Forms for Statements and Reports, and Summary of Chapter - Section 27. The director shall make available to city and...
Section 28 - Inspection of Statements and Reports; Delinquencies; Notice; Filing - Section 28. The clerk of cities and towns shall inspect...
Section 29 - Failure to File Statement, Report or Affidavit; Notice to and Duties of Director and Attorney General - Section 29. Upon failure to file a statement, report or...
Section 30 - Courts' Authority to Compel Filing of Statements - Section 30. The supreme judicial or superior court may compel...
Section 31 - Immunity of Witnesses - Section 31. No person compelled to testify in any proceedings...
Section 32 - Corrupt Practices by Candidate Defined - Section 32. A candidate shall be deemed to have committed...
Section 33 - Election Petitions for Corrupt Practices; Procedure - Section 33. (a) If the attorney general or five or...
Section 34 - Application of Preceding Sections - Section 34. Sections one to thirty-three, inclusive, shall apply to...
Section 35 - Inquests Upon Complaint for Violations - Section 35. Upon a complaint subscribed and sworn to by...
Section 36 - Conduct of Inquests - Section 36. The court may exclude all persons whose presence...
Section 37 - Witnesses; Attendance; Process; Fees - Section 37. Such court or attorney may issue subpoenas for...
Section 38 - Stenographer - Section 38. Such court may employ a stenographer and may...
Section 39 - Witnesses; Binding Over to Superior Court - Section 39. The court may bind over, as in criminal...
Section 40 - Apprehension of Offenders - Section 40. If a person charged by the report with...
Section 41 - Witnesses; Compulsory Testimony; Immunity - Section 41. No person shall be excused from testifying or...
Section 42 - Forwarding Certified Copy of Record of Final Judgment or Conviction to City or Town Clerk; Disqualification of Defendant as Voter - Section 42. The director in proceedings based upon an election...