Election financial records. Election code adopted. District boundaries established. Contribution means a gift, subscription, loan, advance or deposit of any money or other thing of value which is made for the primary purpose of supporting or opposing a candidate for elective office. This does not include the value of services provided without compensation or unreimbursed personal expenses of individuals who volunteer a portion or all of their time on behalf of a candidate.
Election means any general or special municipal election in the city.
Expenditure means a payment, transfer, or distribution, or obligation or promise to pay, transfer or distribute any money or other thing of value for the purpose of influencing the outcome of an election of a candidate, but does not include the candidate's or his immediate family's personal expenses. General purpose political committee means a political committee other than a special purpose political committee. Political committee means every two or more persons who are selected, appointed, chosen or associated for the purpose of, wholly or in part, supporting or opposing a candidate at any election, and includes political committees or similar organizations composed of employees or members of any corporation, labor organization, trade or professional association or any other similar group which raises, collects, expends or contributes money or any other thing of value for the purpose of supporting or opposing a candidate in a municipal election. Reporting individual means every candidate, every treasurer of every special purpose political committee or treasurer of every general purpose political committee whose purpose is to aid the candidate in the campaign for municipal office. Special purpose political committee means a political committee making contributions to support or oppose one candidate, such contributions being limited to one special or one general election.