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2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-30 - Influencing of vote by employer; placards for such purpose

19:34-30. Influencing of vote by employer; placards for such purpose
No employer, in paying his employees the salary or wages due them, shall inclose their pay in "pay envelopes" upon which there is written or printed the name of any candidate or any political motto, device or argument containing threats, express or implied, intended or calculated to influence the political opinions or actions of such employees. Nor shall an employer, within ninety days of an election, put up or otherwise exhibit in his factory, workshop, or other establishment or place where his workmen or employees may be working, any handbill or placard containing any threat, notice or information that in case any particular ticket of a political party, or organization, or candidate shall be elected, work in his establishment will cease, in whole or in part, or his establishment be closed up, or the salaries or wages of his employees be reduced, or other threat, express or implied, intended or calculated to influence the political opinions or actions of his employees.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-31 - Violation by person or corporation; misdemeanor; forfeiture of charter

19:34-31. Violation by person or corporation; misdemeanor; forfeiture of charter
Sections 19:34-27 to 19:34-30 of this title shall apply to corporations as well as individuals, and any person or corporation violating the provisions thereof shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and any corporation violating such provisions shall forfeit its charter.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-32 - Contributions by insurance corporations

19:34-32. Contributions by insurance corporations
No insurance corporation or association doing business in this state shall, directly or indirectly, pay or use, or offer, consent or agree to pay or use, any money or property for or in aid of any political party, committee, organization or corporation, or for or in aid of any candidate for political office, or for nomination for such office, or for any political purpose whatsoever, or for the reimbursement or indemnification of any person for money or property so used.
Any officer, director, stockholder, attorney or agent of any corporation or association which violates any of the provisions of this title, who participates in, aids, abets, or advises or consents to any such violation, and any person who solicits or knowingly receives any money or property in violation of this title, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-33 - Contributions by state, county or municipal committees

19:34-33. Contributions by state, county or municipal committees
No state, county or municipal committee or organization of any political party shall expend any money in aid of the candidacy of any candidate for election as a delegate at any national convention, or election to any party position, or for nomination as a candidate of a political party for public office.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-34 - Expenditures by party committee or organization or petitioners

19:34-34. Expenditures by party committee or organization or petitioners
No such party committee or organization, nor any committee of any group of petitioners, nor any other person shall expend any money in aid of any candidate for public office, except as herein otherwise provided.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-35 - Other contributions and expenditures.

19:34-35 Other contributions and expenditures.
19:34-35. Any person who shall expend, aid or assist in the expenditure of any such money for a purpose not authorized by this title, or for a purpose not named in the statement accompanying such contribution, shall be guilty of a crime of the third degree.
Amended 2005, c.154, s.46.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-38 - Certain expenditures prohibited

19:34-38. Certain expenditures prohibited
No person shall pay, lend or contribute, or offer or agree to pay, lend or contribute, any money or other valuable consideration to or for any person for any of the following:
a. The doing or procuring to be done of any act forbidden to be done by the laws relating to primary or general elections; or
b. The commission of any crime or offense against the elective franchise, or the encouragement or assistance of a person in the commission of a crime or offense against the elective franchise, or aiding or assisting any person charged with the commission of a crime against the elective franchise to evade arrest or to escape conviction and punishment; or
c. Providing, wholly or in part, directly or indirectly, for the expense of boarding, lodging or maintaining a person in any place of domicile in any election precinct or ward or district, with the purpose of securing the vote of such person, or of inducing such person to vote for himself, or any other person at an election; or
d. The hiring or employment of a person to take or maintain a place in, or to otherwise obstruct or hinder, or to prevent the forming of the line of voters awaiting their opportunity or time to enter the polling place or election booth of an election precinct; or
e. In consideration of any person withdrawing as a candidate for public office or presidential elector, at any election; or
f. To pay any person for loss or damage due to attendance at the polls at any primary or general or charter election, or any registry therefor, or for the purpose of such registration; or
g. For any purpose in contravention of the provisions of this Title; or
h. Making any payment except in the manner provided by this Title.
Amended by L.1940, c. 199, p. 854, s. 10; L.1948, c. 438, p. 1705, s. 19; L.1963, c. 57, s. 1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-40 - Receipts for certain purposes prohibited

19:34-40. Receipts for certain purposes prohibited
No person, directly or indirectly, by himself or through any other person:
Voting or agreeing to vote. a. Shall receive, agree or contract for, before or during an election, any money, gift, loan or other valuable consideration, office, place or employment, for himself or any other person, for voting or agreeing to vote, or for coming or agreeing to come to the polls, or for refraining or agreeing to refrain from voting, or for voting or agreeing to vote, or refraining or agreeing to refrain from voting for any particular person or persons at any election.
Voting or refraining from voting. b. Shall receive any money or other valuable thing during or after an election, because of himself, or any other person, having voted or refrained from voting for any particular person or persons at such election, or because of himself, or any other person having come to the polls or remained away from the polls at such election, or because of having induced any other person to vote or refrain from voting, or to vote or refrain from voting for any particular person or persons, or to come to or remain away from the polls at such election.
Securing delegates or indorsements. c. Shall receive any money or other valuable thing before, during or after an election, because of himself, or any other person having voted to secure the election or indorsement of any other person as the nominee or candidate of any convention, organized assemblage of delegates or other body, representing, or claiming to represent, a political party or principle, or any club, society or association, or because of himself or any other person having aided in securing the selection or indorsement of any other person as a nominee or candidate as above.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-41 - Payments and bank deposits in name of another

19:34-41. Payments and bank deposits in name of another
No person shall make any payment of his money, or of the money of any other person, in connection with any nomination or election in any other name than that of the person who actually supplies such money, nor shall any person knowingly receive such money, or thing of value, and enter it in his accounts or deposit it in any bank or trust company, in any other name than the name of the person who actually supplies the same.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-42 - Demand of contributions by office holders from other office holders

19:34-42. Demand of contributions by office holders from other office holders
No holder of a public office or position shall demand payment or contribution from another holder of a public office or position for the campaign purposes of any candidate or for the use of any political party.
Amended by L.1975, c. 70, s. 1, eff. April 24, 1975.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-42.1 - Annual notice

19:34-42.1. Annual notice
The Secretary of State shall, during the week of the third Monday in January of every year, send written notification to each State employee and each county and municipal clerk of the prohibitions of this act, and shall at the same time publicize such written notification.
L.1975, c. 70, s. 2, eff. April 24, 1975.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-42.2 - Violations; penalty

19:34-42.2. Violations; penalty
Section 1 of this act shall be subject to the penalty provisions of R.S. 19:34-35, but no penalty shall be imposed pursuant to any section of law amended herein for violations occurring prior to the effective date of this act.
L.1975, c. 70, s. 3, eff. April 24, 1975.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-44 - Solicitation of candidates for contributions

19:34-44. Solicitation of candidates for contributions
No person shall demand, solicit, ask or invite any candidate for nomination or election to public office or party position to subscribe for the support of any club or organization, or to buy tickets to any entertainment or ball, or to pay for space in any book, program, periodical or publication.
This prohibition shall not apply to the solicitation of business advertising in periodicals in which the candidate was a regular advertiser prior to his candidacy, nor to ordinary business advertising, nor to the regular payments to any organizations, religious, charitable or otherwise, of which he was a member, or to which he was a contributor for more than six months before his candidacy, nor to any ordinary contributions at church services.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-45 - Contributions by certain corporations.

19:34-45 Contributions by certain corporations.
19:34-45. No corporation carrying on the business of a bank, savings bank, co-operative bank, trust, trustee, savings indemnity, safe deposit, insurance, railroad, street railway, telephone, telegraph, gas, electric light, heat or power, canal or aqueduct company, or having the right to condemn land, or to exercise franchises in public ways granted by the state or any county or municipality, and no corporation, person, trustee or trustees, owning or holding the majority of stock in any such corporation, shall pay or contribute money or thing of value in order to aid or promote the nomination or election of any person, or in order to aid or promote the interests, success or defeat of any political party.
The provisions of this section shall not apply to any corporation carrying on the business of a co-generation facility, as defined in subsection c. of section 1 of P.L.2000, c.156 (C.54:15B-2.2), or to any corporation carrying on the business of a retail seller that extends credit, pursuant to the provisions of the "Retail Installment Sales Act of 1960" P.L.1960, c.40 (C.17:16C-1 et seq.), or to any corporation, person, trustee or trustees, owning or holding the majority of stock in either such corporation.
Amended 2001, c.384, s.1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-46 - Disenfranchisement as additional penalty.

19:34-46 Disenfranchisement as additional penalty.
19:34-46. In addition to any penalties provided for violation of any of the provisions of this title, the court imposing such penalty may add thereto that such offender be thenceforth disfranchised as a voter while serving a sentence of incarceration and disqualified to hold any office of trust or profit within this state for such length of time as such court deems proper.
amended 2019, c.270, s.7.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-47 - Second offense; punishment.

19:34-47 Second offense; punishment.
19:34-47. A person who, having once been convicted of a violation of any of the provisions of this title, shall again be convicted of a violation of any of its provisions, whether such conviction be for the same offense or not, shall on such second conviction, be sentenced to a mandatory minimum term of imprisonment, without eligibility for parole, of one year for a crime of the fourth degree, of two years for a crime of the third degree and of five years for a crime of the second degree, unless the provisions of any other law provide for a higher mandatory minimum term.
Amended 2005, c.154, s.47.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-48 - Neglect of duties.

19:34-48 Neglect of duties.
19:34-48. Every person charged with the performance of any duty under the provisions of any law of this State relating to elections who willfully neglects or refuses to perform it, or who, in his official capacity, knowingly and fraudulently acts in contravention or violation of any of the provisions of such laws, shall be guilty of a crime of the third degree.
Amended 2005, c.154, s.48.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-49 - Abetting violations of title.

19:34-49 Abetting violations of title.
19:34-49. Any candidate who procures, aids, assists, counsels, advises or knowingly permits any person to violate this title shall be guilty of a crime of the third degree.
Amended 2005, c.154, s.49.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-50 - Committeemen acting after their election voided

19:34-50. Committeemen acting after their election voided
Any person chosen as member of the state committee, county committee, or any municipal committee of any political party who shall sit or perform any duty, or exercise any functions as a member of such committee after his election thereto shall have been declared null and void, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and each member of any such committee who shall vote to recognize any such member after such election shall have been declared null and void shall likewise be guilty of a misdemeanor.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-51 - Failure of delegate to national convention to surrender void certificate

19:34-51. Failure of delegate to national convention to surrender void certificate
Any delegate at large or district delegate to any national convention who shall fail to surrender such certificate of election forthwith after the same has been declared null and void, or who shall use such certificate of election, or who shall present such certificate of election as a credential at any such convention, or to any committee on credentials at such convention, or who shall leave the limits of this state with such certificate in his possession with intent to use the same as a credential for admission to any political convention, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-53 - Failure to supply information.

19:34-53 Failure to supply information.
19:34-53. Any person who neglects or refuses to furnish any information required or authorized by this title or to exhibit the records, papers or documents herein authorized to be inspected, or which are required to be exhibited, shall be guilty of a crime of the fourth degree.
Amended 2005, c.154, s.50.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-54 - Failure to obey subpoena or refusal to testify.

19:34-54 Failure to obey subpoena or refusal to testify.
19:34-54. Any person who shall omit, neglect or refuse to obey a subpoena attested in the name of the county clerk, municipal clerk, or county board and made returnable by such clerk or board, or refuses to testify under oath before such clerk or board, shall be guilty of a crime of the fourth degree.
Amended 2005, c.154, s.51.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-56 - Disobedience of subpoena, penalty

19:34-56. Disobedience of subpoena, penalty
19:34-56. Every person upon whom a subpoena issued under and by virtue of this Title shall have been served, and to whom the lawful fees shall have been paid or tendered, shall obey the command of such subpoena, under the penalty of fifty dollars ($50.00), to be sued for and recovered, with costs, in a civil action, before any court of competent jurisdiction, by the person on whose application such subpoena shall have been issued; but no person shall in any case be required to attend any such examination as a witness out of the county in which he resides.
If any person so duly subpoenaed shall neglect or refuse to obey the command of such subpoena, any judge of the Superior Court may, on due proof by affidavit of the service of the subpoena on such witness, and of the payment of his legal fees and of his refusal or neglect to obey the command of the subpoena, issue an attachment against the person to bring him before such judge; and the judge shall have power to proceed against such witness as for a contempt of court.
Amended 1953, c.19, s.54; 1991,c.91,s.258.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-57 - Subpoena to issue, expenses

19:34-57. Subpoena to issue, expenses
19:34-57. If proof be made before any judge of the Superior Court or municipal court of facts constituting probable cause for believing that this Title has been violated, and that any person other than the accused has knowledge of the circumstances connected therewith, such judge shall issue process of subpoena for the appearance of such person before him, to be examined touching the same. The lawful expenses of such subpoena and examination shall be paid by the applicant therefor, and such evidence shall be filed with the clerk of the county, to be used before the grand jury. No such process of subpoena shall be issued or served nor any such examination held on the day of election.
Amended 1953, c.19, s.55; 1991,c.91,s.259.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-62 - Prosecutor of pleas to present violations to grand jury

19:34-62. Prosecutor of pleas to present violations to grand jury
If the prosecutor of the pleas of the county shall be notified of any violation of any of the provisions of this title, he shall forthwith diligently inquire into the facts, and if there is reasonable ground for instituting a prosecution, such prosecutor of the pleas shall present the charge, with all the evidence which he can procure, to the grand jury of the county. Nothing herein contained shall justify any such prosecutor in counties of the first class in exercising the powers conferred upon the superintendent of elections in such counties.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-63 - Assistant for prosecutor; employment by citizens

19:34-63. Assistant for prosecutor; employment by citizens
Any citizen may employ an attorney to assist the prosecutor of the pleas to perform his duties under this title, and such attorney shall be recognized by the prosecutor of the pleas and the court as associate counsel in the proceedings.
No prosecution, action or proceeding shall be dismissed without notice to, or against the objection of, such associate counsel until the reasons of the prosecutor of the pleas for such dismissal, together with the objections thereto of such associate counsel, shall have been filed in writing, argued by counsel and considered by the court, with such limitation as to the time of filing such reasons and objections as the court may impose.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-65 - Person performing function in campaign of candidate for purpose of impeding campaign

19:34-65. Person performing function in campaign of candidate for purpose of impeding campaign
No person shall perform any function in the campaign of a candidate for public office or party position for the purpose of impeding the campaign of such candidate while concealing that he is actually acting under the instructions of, or on behalf of, another candidate or such other candidate's paid or volunteer campaign staff.
L.1975, c. 190, s. 2, eff. Aug. 16, 1975.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-66 - Knowing production, transmittal or dissemination of mass communication which appears to originate from or be on behalf of campaign of candidate for purpose of impeding campaign

19:34-66. Knowing production, transmittal or dissemination of mass communication which appears to originate from or be on behalf of campaign of candidate for purpose of impeding campaign
No person shall knowingly produce, transmit or disseminate any election advertisement, literature or other mass communication in any medium, including but not limited to newspapers, magazines, printed circulars, television, radio, movies, telephone, telegraph, billboards and signs, which purports to or appears to originate from, or be on behalf of, the campaign of a candidate for public office or party position, for the purpose of impeding the campaign of such candidate while failing to reveal specifically in such communication that he is acting under the instructions of, or on behalf of, another candidate or such other candidate's paid or volunteer campaign staff; provided, however, that this section shall not apply to any owner, manager, editor, publisher, reporter or employee of any newspaper, magazine, periodical or other publication or of any radio or television station who, in the course of his duties, publishes or broadcasts any such advertisement, literature or mass communication.
L.1975, c. 190, s. 3, eff. Aug. 16, 1975.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:34-67 - Payment of or lending money or other valuable consideration to person to induce violation of act

19:34-67. Payment of or lending money or other valuable consideration to person to induce violation of act
No person shall, directly or indirectly, by himself or through any other person acting in his behalf, knowingly give, lend, or agree, offer or promise to give or lend, any money or other valuable consideration, office, place, employment or thing to any person to induce him to violate section 2 or section 3 of this act.
L.1975, c. 190, s. 4, eff. Aug. 16, 1975.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:36-1 - Time and place of meeting.

19:36-1 Time and place of meeting.
19:36-1. The electors of president and vice president shall convene at the State House at Trenton, or in another State building within the State House Complex at Trenton, or the War Memorial at Trenton, on the day appointed by congress for that purpose, at the hour of three o'clock in the afternoon of that day, and constitute an electoral college. In any year in which, on July 20, the "Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote" is in effect in states cumulatively possessing a majority of the electoral votes, and the State of New Jersey remains a member of that agreement, the electors for president and vice president shall be those electors certified as the elector slate in accordance with section 1 of P.L.2007, c.334 (C.19:36-4).
Amended 2007, c.334, s.4; 2008, c.103, s.1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:36-2 - Vacancies; filling.

19:36-2 Vacancies; filling.
19:36-2. a. When a vacancy shall happen in the college of electors, or when an elector shall fail to attend, by the hour of three o'clock in the afternoon of the day fixed by congress for the meeting of the college of electors, at the place of holding such meeting, those of such electors who shall be assembled at the hour and place shall immediately proceed to fill by a majority of votes such vacancy.
b. If the members of the electoral college shall have been nominated and elected as representing different political parties, any vacancy occurring shall be filled by the elector or electors representing the same political party as the absent elector; and if there shall be no elector present representing the same political party as the absent elector, then such vacancy shall be filled by a majority of the electors present, who shall choose some person of the political party which the absent elector represents.
c. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsections a. and b. of this section, in any year in which, on July 20, the "Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote" is in effect in states cumulatively possessing a majority of the electoral votes, and the State of New Jersey remains a member of that agreement, any vacancy in the college of electors shall be filled in accordance with the provisions of section 1 of this act, P.L.2007, c.334 (C.19:36-4).
Amended 2007, c.334, s.5.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:36-3 - Organization, performance of duties.

19:36-3 Organization, performance of duties.
19:36-3. After choosing a president and secretary from their own body, such electors shall proceed to perform the duties required of them by the constitution and laws of the United States, and in accordance with the provisions of section 1 of this act, P.L.2007, c.334 (C.19:36-4) in any year in which, on July 20, the "Agreement Among the States to Elect the President by National Popular Vote" is in effect in states cumulatively possessing a majority of the electoral votes, and the State of New Jersey remains a member of that agreement.
Amended 2007, c.334, s.6.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:37-1 - Referendum.

19:37-1 Referendum.
19:37-1. When the governing body of any municipality or of any county desires to ascertain the sentiment of the legal voters of the municipality or county upon any question or policy pertaining to the government or internal affairs thereof, and there is no other statute by which the sentiment can be ascertained by the submission of such question to a vote of the electors in the municipality or county at any election to be held therein, the governing body may adopt at any regular meeting an ordinance or a resolution requesting the clerk of the county to print upon the official ballots to be used at the next ensuing general election a certain proposition to be formulated and expressed in the ordinance or resolution in concise form. Such request shall be filed with the clerk of the county not later than 88 days previous to the election.
amended 1942, c.50, s.13; 1967, c.101, s.1; 1985, c.92, s.29; 2011, c.37, s.22; 2023, c.124, s.6.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:37-1.1 - Petition of voters.

19:37-1.1 Petition of voters.
2. Whenever a governing body of a municipality has adopted an ordinance or resolution pursuant to section 19:37-1 of the Revised Statutes, upon the presentation to the governing body of such municipality of a petition signed by 10% or more of the voters registered and qualified to vote at the last general election in such municipality, requesting the governing body of such municipality to ascertain the sentiment of the legal voters of the municipality upon any question or policy pertaining to the government or internal affairs thereof that is reasonably related to any proposition formulated and expressed in such ordinance or resolution, such governing body of the municipality shall thereupon adopt at its next regular meeting following the presentation of such petition a resolution requesting the clerk of the county to print upon the official ballots to be used at the next ensuing general election a certain proposition as formulated and expressed in the petition. Such request shall be filed with the clerk of the county not later than the 74th day previous to the election.
L.1967, c.101, s.2; amended 1985, c.92, s.30; 2011, c.37, s.23; 2023, c.124, s.7.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:37-2 - Question placed on ballot by county clerk.

19:37-2 Question placed on ballot by county clerk.
19:37-2. If a copy of the ordinance or resolution certified by the clerk or secretary of the governing body of any such municipality or county is delivered to the county clerk not less than 74 days before any such general election, he shall cause it to be printed on each sample ballot and official ballot to be printed for or used in such municipality or county, as the case may be, at the next ensuing general election.
amended 1947, c.69; 1971, c.217, s.3; 2011, c.37, s.24; 2023, c.124, s.8.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:44A-2 - Policy declaration; political contributions, limited; reporting contributions received, expenditures made.

19:44A-2. Policy declaration; political contributions, limited; reporting contributions received, expenditures made.
2. It is hereby declared to be in the public interest and to be the policy of the State to limit political contributions and to require the reporting of contributions received and expenditures made to aid or promote the nomination, election or defeat of any candidate for public office or to aid or promote the passage or defeat of a public question in any election and to require the reporting of contributions received and expenditures made to provide political information on any candidate for public office, or on any public question.
L.1973,c.83,s.2; amended 1981,c.151,s.1; 1993,c.65,s.1; 2023, c.30, s.27.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:44A-2.1 - Findings, declarations relative to individuals considering candidacy for public office.

19:44A-2.1 Findings, declarations relative to individuals considering candidacy for public office.
1. The Legislature finds and declares that:
a. Accessible public disclosure of money and other things of value given to a candidate for public office by an individual, another candidate or a political committee has proven to be the most effective means of fostering public awareness of and reducing public skepticism about the current system of financing elections for public office;
b. However, under the current disclosure system, certain individuals who collect and spend money while considering whether to become a candidate for public office at a future election do not have to disclose anything about the money they raise or expend until they become a candidate;
c. The continuation of this practice undermines public confidence in the current system of financing elections for public office;
d. The State has a compelling interest in preventing the actuality or appearance of corruption and in protecting public confidence in democratic institutions by requiring an individual who is considering whether to be a candidate for office to comply with the same laws that apply to any candidate for public office; and
e. It is, therefore, reasonable for the State to promote these compelling interests by requiring an individual who acts like a candidate to comply with the current limitations, prohibitions and requirements on campaign contributions and the disclosure of the sources and amounts of contributions and expenditures.
L.1999,c.57,s.1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:44A-3.1 - Determination as to coordinated communication expenditure; criteria.

19:44A-3.1 Determination as to coordinated communication expenditure; criteria.
11. To determine whether a person, candidate committee, joint candidates committee, continuing political committee, or independent expenditure committee has made a coordinated expenditure with any candidate or political party, the Election Law Enforcement Commission shall consider whether the candidate or political party, the candidate committee, or any staff member or agent thereof:
a. cooperated with, consented to, authorized, or exercised control over the production or circulation of the communication expenditure;
b. requested or suggested that the communication expenditure be made;
c. provided information to the person or entity making the communication expenditure with regard to the content, timing, location, mode, intended audience, distribution, or placement of the television, radio, direct mail, or other form of communication;
d. discussed or negotiated with the purchaser, creator, producer, or distributor of the communication concerning the content, timing, location, mode, intended audience, distribution, or placement of the communication;
e. shared information or held discussions on campaign or media strategy with the person or entity making the communication expenditure or with the purchaser, creator, producer, or distributor of the communication;
f. shared its polling or other research with the person or entity making the communication expenditure or whether or not the person or entity making the communication expenditure shared its polling or other research with the candidate, candidate committee, or with any agent of the candidate or candidate committee; or
g. engaged in any other activity the Election Law Enforcement Commission determines, by regulation, constitutes a coordinated expenditure.
L.2019, c.124, s.11.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:44A-4 - Application of act

19:44A-4. Application of act
The provisions of this act shall apply:
a. (Deleted by amendment; P.L.1981, c. 151.)
b. (Deleted by amendment; P.L. [1983], c. [579].)
c. In any election at which a public question is to be voted upon by the voters of the State or any political subdivision thereof;
d. In any election for any public office of the State or any political subdivision thereof; provided, however, that this act shall not, except for paragraph (2) of subsection a. of section 8 of the act (C. 19:44A-8), apply to elections for party office.
L.1973, c. 83, s. 4, eff. April 24, 1973. Amended by L.1981, c. 151, s. 3, eff. May 22, 1981; L.1983, c. 579, s. 8, eff. Jan. 17, 1984.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:44A-6a - Enforcement action, statute of limitations.

19:44A-6a Enforcement action, statute of limitations.
35. Any enforcement action brought by the Election Law Enforcement Commission for any violations of P.L.1973, c.83 (C.19:44A-1 et seq.) shall be subject to a statute of limitations of two years following the occurrence of the alleged violation. The statute of limitations provided in this section shall apply retroactively to any alleged violations occurring prior to the effective date of this act, P.L.2023, c.30 (C.19:44A-20.10a et al.).
L.2023, c.30, s.35.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:44A-6.1 - ELEC, authority to issue certain advisory opinions.

19:44A-6.1 ELEC, authority to issue certain advisory opinions.
32. The Election Law Enforcement Commission shall have the authority to issue such advisory opinions that relate to candidates for the office of Lieutenant Governor and regulations, including temporary regulations that may be adopted on an emergency basis, as the commission deems necessary to effectuate the provisions of P.L.2009, c.66 (C.19:3-2.1 et al.) that apply to the commission or are within the purview of the commission.
L.2009, c.66, s.32.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:44A-6.2 - Election Law Enforcement Commission, technical updates, database usability.

19:44A-6.2 Election Law Enforcement Commission, technical updates, database usability.
34. Within one year following the effective date of this act, P.L.2023, c.30 (C.19:44A-20.10a et al.), the Election Law Enforcement Commission shall make technical updates to its campaign contributions and expenditures reporting database to improve the performance and usability of the database. The Legislature shall appropriate to the Election Law Enforcement Commission any funds necessary for the implementation of this section.
L.2023, c.30, s.34.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:44A-7 - Spending limits.

19:44A-7 Spending limits.
7. The amount which may be spent in aid of the candidacy of any qualified candidate for Governor in a primary election shall not exceed $7,300,000. The amount which may be spent in aid of the candidacy of any qualified joint candidates for Governor and Lieutenant Governor in a general election shall not exceed $15,600,000; but such sums shall not include the traveling expenses of the candidate or candidates or of any person other than the candidate or candidates if such traveling expenses are voluntarily paid by such person without any understanding or agreement with the candidate or candidates that they shall be, directly or indirectly, repaid to him by the candidate or candidates.
L.1973, c.83, s.7; amended 1980, c.74, s.2; 1989, c.4, s.2; 2009, c.66, s.7; 2023, c.30, s.1.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:44A-10.1 - Establishment of legislative leadership committee

19:44A-10.1. Establishment of legislative leadership committee
16. a. The President of the Senate, the Minority Leader of the Senate, the Speaker of the General Assembly and the Minority Leader of the General Assembly may each establish, authorize the establishment of, or designate one legislative leadership committee for the purpose of receiving contributions and making expenditures to aid or promote the candidacy of any individual, or the candidacy of individuals, for elective office in any election or the passage or defeat of a public question or public questions in any election. The President of the Senate, the Minority Leader of the Senate, the Speaker of the General Assembly and the Minority Leader of the General Assembly, or the person authorized to establish a legislative leadership committee therefor, shall appoint such members and adopt such bylaws for the maintenance of the committee as is deemed appropriate. In the event that the State committee of a political party is designated hereunder to serve as a legislative leadership committee, any receipts and expenditures of that State committee which relate to its activity as a legislative leadership committee shall be accounted for separately from receipts and expenditures relating to the State committee's other activities, and all activity by that State committee in its capacity as a legislative leadership committee shall, for all purposes of this act, be considered as having been conducted as the activities of a separate legislative leadership committee.
b. Within 30 days after such a committee is established, the Election Law Enforcement Commission shall be informed, in writing, of the names and addresses of the chairperson, vice-chairperson, and all other members of the committee. The commission shall be similarly informed of any change in the membership of the committee within three days of the occurrence of the change.
L.1993,c.65,s.16.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:44A-10.2 - Segregated depository account, eligible expenses, non-political purposes, certain, permitted; maximum contribution; reporting.

19:44A-10.2 Segregated depository account, eligible expenses, non-political purposes, certain, permitted; maximum contribution; reporting.
33. Notwithstanding any provision of P.L.1973, c.83 (C.19:44A-1 et seq.), or any other law, rule, or regulation to the contrary, the two major political parties in this State and their respective county political party committees shall be permitted to create a segregated depository account, separate from any campaign depository account, to be deemed as the "housekeeping account." The purpose of the housekeeping account shall be to pay eligible expenses for non-political purposes of the State political party committee or county political party committee including, but not limited to, legal activity, accounting, compliance, human resources, collective bargaining, capital expenses such as mortgage payments, rent, utilities, and taxes, and expenses related to county, State, or national political party conventions. The two major political parties in this State and their respective county political party committees shall be permitted to raise funds for deposit into the housekeeping account, except that the maximum contribution or limit on the funds raised from any given person, candidate, or committee shall be equivalent to half the amounts established under P.L.1973, c.83 (C.19:44A-1 et seq.) for the State committee of a political party or the county committee of a political party. Gubernatorial campaigns shall be permitted to utilize the funds deposited in a political party housekeeping account established under this section for any non-political expenditures incurred following the election in which the gubernatorial candidates participated, and those non-political expenditures shall not be considered an in-kind contribution. Each State political party committee and each county political party committee establishing a housekeeping account as provided under this section shall file with the Election Law Enforcement Commission a report of all contributions received for the housekeeping account in excess of $200 and of all expenditures made from the account. The reports shall contain the same information and shall be filed in the same schedule as the reports of campaign contributions and expenditures required to be filed by political party committees pursuant to subsection c. of section 8 of P.L.1973, c.83 (C.19:44A-8).
L.2023, c.30, s.33.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:44A-11.3a - Limitations on receipt of contributions, certain, between county committees; violations, penalties.

19:44A-11.3a Limitations on receipt of contributions, certain, between county committees; violations, penalties.
13. In addition to any other applicable limit prescribed by law, between January 1 and June 30 of each year, a county committee of a political party shall not make a contribution to any other county committee of a political party, nor shall any such county committee accept a contribution from any other county committee during that time period. In addition to any other penalty provided by law, a county committee that willfully and intentionally violates this section, or willfully and intentionally makes a contribution to any candidate or committee with the intent, condition, understanding or belief that the candidate or committee has made or shall make a contribution to another county committee, shall be liable to a penalty equal to four times the amount of the contribution.
L.2004,c.19,s.13.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:44A-11.3b - Candidacy declaration, receiving maximum contribution permitted.

19:44A-11.3b Candidacy declaration, receiving maximum contribution permitted.
26. Whenever any candidate, as defined in paragraph (1) of subsection c. of section 3 of P.L.1973, c.83 (C.19:44A-3), declares a candidacy for any election and establishes a candidate committee, a joint candidates committee, or both, as the case may be, for the purpose of receiving contributions and making expenditures in connection with that election, the candidate shall only accept from each entity permitted to make contributions to the candidate an amount not greater than the maximum contribution limit permitted by law to be made by the entity to the candidate for that election, even if the candidate declares a candidacy and establishes the committee or committees before the election year in which the candidate will run for office. No entity shall make additional contributions to a candidate for any election beyond the maximum contribution permitted by law.
L.2023, c.30, s.26.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:44A-11.6 - Loans for contributions; limitations

19:44A-11.6. Loans for contributions; limitations
23. Any person, partnership, association, political committee or continuing political committee may make a loan or loans to any person, partnership, association, political committee or continuing political committee with knowledge or reason to know that the prospective recipient of the loan intends to use the proceeds thereof to make a contribution in aid of any candidate or the candidate committee or joint candidates committee of any candidate, provided that, at any time, the aggregate total of the unrepaid portion of all such loans by that lender shall not exceed an amount equal to twice the maximum amount of contributions in the aggregate which, under subsection a. of section 18 of P.L.1993, c.65 (C.19:44A-11.3), the lender is permitted to make to such a candidate. The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to any bank, savings bank, savings and loan association or credit union, whether chartered by the United States, this State, or any other state or territory of the United States, or by a foreign country.
L.1993,c.65,s.23.
2023 New Jersey Revised Statutes › Title 19 - Elections › Section 19:44A-11.7 - Certain payments, check required

19:44A-11.7. Certain payments, check required
1. Any payment to any individual which is related to efforts by or on behalf of a candidate, candidate committee, joint candidates committee, political committee, continuing political committee, political party committee, or legislative leadership committee in aid of or to promote the candidacy of an individual for nomination for election or for election to elective public office or the passage or defeat of a public question, or to efforts directly to promote or encourage the participation of voters in an election, including but not limited to payments made to campaign workers and payments to other individuals which are intended for further transfer to election-day workers or other ultimate payees, shall be made by check payable to such named individual, and no such payment shall be made in currency.
Any payment to a candidate committee, joint candidates committee, political committee, continuing political committee, political party committee, or legislative leadership committee, or to any other person, association or group, by a candidate or any such committee or by any other person, association or group, which payment is related to efforts in aid of or to promote the candidacy of an individual for nomination for election or for election to elective public office or the passage or defeat of a public question, or to efforts directly to promote or encourage the participation of voters in an election, shall be made by check payable to the named committee, person, association, or group, and no such payment shall be made in currency.
As used in this section, "candidate", "candidate committee", "joint candidates committee," "political committee," "continuing political committee," "political party committee," and "legislative leadership committee" shall have the meanings prescribed for those respective terms by section 3 of P.L.1973, c.83 (C.19:44A-3).
L.1993,c.370.