2023 New York Laws › EDN - Education › Title 2 - School District Organization › Article 32 - Filing of Expenditure Statements by Candidates for Membership on Board of Education › 1528 - Expenditure and Contribution Statement.

§ 1528.  Expenditure  and contribution statement. 1. (a) Any candidate
for election to the board of education, except a candidate for member of
the community district education council of a New  York  city  community
school  district,  shall  file  sworn  statements  with the clerk of the
school district in which he or she is a candidate and  the  commissioner
setting forth all moneys or other valuable things, paid, given, expended
or  promised by him or her, or incurred for or on his or her behalf with
his  or  her  approval  to  be  filed  with  the  aforesaid  clerk   and
commissioner by any person, firm, association or corporation, to aid his
or her own nomination or election, or to aid or influence the nomination
or  defeat  of  any  candidate  to  be  voted  for  at the election. Any
candidate for election, if he or she expended nothing or his or her only
expenditures were for personal expenses which when taken  together  with
the  total expenditures incurred by others on his or her behalf and with
his or her approval do not exceed  five  hundred  dollars,  and  if  the
aggregate  amount  of  all  contributions  made to such candidate do not
exceed  five  hundred  dollars,  shall  not  be  required  to  file  any
statements with the commissioner; however such candidate shall file with
the  clerk  of  the school district a sworn statement to the effect that
his or her election expenditures did not exceed five hundred dollars and
contributions received did not exceed five hundred dollars.
(b) Any required contribution  statements  shall  include  the  dollar
amount  of  any  receipt,  contribution  or transfer, or the fair market
value of any receipt, contribution or transfer, which is other  than  of
money,  the  name  and  address of the transferor, contributor or person
from whom received, and if the transferor, contributor or  person  is  a
political  committee  as defined in subdivision one of section 14-100 of
the election law; the name of and the political unit represented by  the
committee,  the  date  of  its  receipt,  the  dollar  amount  of  every
expenditure, the name and address of the person to whom it was  made  or
the name of and the political unit represented by the committee to which
it was made and the date thereof.
(c)  No  person  or  persons  shall  make  expenditures on behalf of a
candidate without his or her approval  unless  such  person  or  persons
files a sworn statement with the clerk and commissioner stating that the
candidate  did  not  approve such expenditure. Such expenditure shall be
limited to twenty-five dollars and shall not be included in  determining
the  five  hundred  dollars  as  set  forth  in  paragraph  (a)  of this
subdivision.
2. For the purposes of this section, personal expenses  shall  include
only  payments  for  traveling expenses and expenses incidental thereto,
for  writing,  printing  and  preparing  for  transmission  any  letter,
circular,   or  other  publication  not  issued  at  regular  intervals,
containing a statement of the position or  views  of  the  candidate  or
person  upon  public  or other questions, for stationery and postage and
for telegraph, telephone and other public  messenger  service;  but  all
such  expenses  shall  be  limited  to  those  which  are  directly  and
personally incurred and paid by the candidate.