New York Laws
Title 2 - Public Financing
14-200-A - Definitions.

(b) The following contributions are not matchable:
(i) loans;
(ii) in-kind contributions of property, goods, or services;
(iii) contributions in the form of the purchase price paid for an item
with significant intrinsic and enduring value;
(iv) transfers from a party or constituted committee;
(v) anonymous contributions;
(vi) contributions whose source is not itemized as required by these
recommendations;
(vii) contributions gathered during a previous election cycle;
(viii) illegal contributions;
(ix) contributions from minors;
(x) contributions from vendors for campaigns hired by the candidate
for such election cycle;
(xi) contributions from lobbyists registered pursuant to subdivision
(a) of section one-c of the legislative law; and
(xii) any portion of a contribution when the aggregate contributions
are in excess of two hundred fifty dollars from any one contributor to
such participating candidate for nomination or election.
13. "nonparticipating candidate" means a candidate for a covered
election who fails to file a written certification in the form of an
affidavit pursuant to these recommendation by the applicable deadline.
14. "participating candidate" means any candidate for nomination for
election, or election, to the office of governor, lieutenant governor,
attorney general, state comptroller, state senator, or member of the
assembly, who files a written certification in the form determined by
the PCFB.
15. "post-election period" means the period following an election when
a candidate is subject to an audit.
16. "qualified campaign expenditure" means an expenditure for which
public matching funds may be used.
17. "threshold for eligibility" means the amount of matchable
contributions that a candidate's authorized committee must receive in
total in order for such candidate to qualify for voluntary public
financing under this title.
18. "transfer" means any exchange of funds between a party or
constituted committee and a candidate or any of his or her authorized
committees.
19. "surplus" means those funds where the total sum of contributions
received and public matchable funds received by a participating
candidate and his or her authorized committee exceeds the total campaign
expenditures of such candidate and authorized committee for all covered
elections held in the same calendar year or for a special election to
fill a vacancy.