§ 11-4. Prohibitions and restrictions.

(a)

Contributions or other receipts received by a candidate or candidate committee may not be commingled with personal funds of the candidate, treasurer, or other officers or members of any committee.

(b)

When the name and address of the contributor is unknown, contributions greater than $10.00 shall not be accepted, and the aggregate of such anonymous contributions shall not exceed $250.00 per election. Anonymous contributions in excess of the above limits are illegal, not allowed and may not be used by the candidate or candidate committee and are to be surrendered to the unified government clerk to be deposited in the general fund.

(c)

No candidate, treasurer or candidate committee may accept any contribution or make any expenditure until all reports required to be filed have been filed.

(d)

No candidate, treasurer or candidate committee may knowingly accept a contribution made by one person in the name of another.

(e)

The aggregate amount contributed to a candidate, or to his candidate committee, and to all political committees dedicated to a particular candidate's campaign, by any person, natural or artificial, or by any committee, organization or other entity, shall not exceed $500.00 for each primary election and shall not exceed $500.00 for each general election. Contributions made in cash from any one person may not exceed $100.00 for each primary election and $100.00 for each general election.

(f)

Contributions made by minor children will be considered to be contributions made by the parent or parents of the children and will be attributed 100 percent to a single custodial parent or 50 percent of the contribution to each of the two parents.

(g)

Contributions can only be used for legitimate campaign purposes or for expenses of holding political office. Personal use of campaign contributions by a candidate, treasurer or candidate committee is prohibited. A candidate is prohibited from using his campaign funds to make a political contribution to another candidate's campaign and cannot accept a campaign contribution which has been made from another candidate's campaign fund.

(h)

Political funds which have been collected for a campaign for state office or any political funds which have been collected for a campaign for federal office may be subject to limitations, conditions, and requirements different and, in some cases, less restrictive, than those contained in this chapter. Such state and federal political funds shall not be used in or for the campaign of a candidate for an elective office of the unified government.

(Code 1988, § 9.5-3; Ord. No. O-13-03, § 3, 4-3-2003)