Connecticut Administrative Code › Title 9 - Elections › 706 - Citizen's Election Program › Section 9-706-2 - Participating candidate use of campaign funds

Current through July 10, 2024
(a) In addition
			 to the requirements set out in section
			 9-706-1
			 of the Regulations of Connecticut State Agencies, participating candidates and
			 the treasurers of participating candidates shall comply with the following
			 citizens' election program requirements. Permissible campaign-related
			 expenditures shall include but are not limited to expenditures for the
			 following:
1. Purchase of political campaign
			 advertising services from any communications medium, including but not limited
			 to newspaper, television, radio, billboard or internet;
2. Political campaign advertising expenses,
			 including but not limited to printing, photography, or graphic arts related to
			 flyers, brochures, palm cards, stationery, signs, stickers, shirts, hats,
			 buttons, or other similar campaign communication materials;
3. Postage and other commercial delivery
			 services for political campaign advertising;
4. Campaign personnel and professional
			 services;
5. Campaign promotional
			 events, including but not limited to expenditures for food, space rental, staff
			 and entertainment at such events;
6. Campaign office rent, office supplies and
			 other office expenses, including but not limited to office utilities and office
			 insurance expenses;
7. Campaign
			 office services, including but not limited to internet services, phone
			 services, photocopying and mailing;
8. Purchase or lease of campaign office
			 furniture and equipment, including but not limited to computer hardware and
			 software;
9. Campaign travel
			 expenses, including but not limited to vehicle rental and vehicle
			 lease;
10. Campaign mileage and
			 fuel expenses at a rate that is no greater than the standard mileage rate
			 provided by the internal revenue service for the calculation of the deductible
			 cost of operating an automobile for business purposes;
11. Food and beverage expenditures for
			 campaign staff, volunteers and other campaign personnel, provided that the
			 expenditure does not exceed $15 per person per occasion for breakfast,
			 inclusive of tax and gratuity, $20 per person per occasion for lunch, inclusive
			 of tax and gratuity, or $30 per person per occasion for dinner, inclusive of
			 tax and gratuity;
12. Conducting
			 polling or get-out-the-vote activities;
13. No more than the following amounts for
			 post-primary or post-election thank you notes or other advertising to thank
			 campaign staff, contributors, volunteers, or supporters: $7,500 for a candidate
			 for the office of governor; $3,500 for a candidate for the office of lieutenant
			 governor, attorney general, state comptroller, secretary of state, or state
			 treasurer; $1,000 for a candidate for the office of state senator; $500 for a
			 candidate for the office of state representative; $750 for a special election
			 candidate for the office of state senator; and $250 for a special election
			 candidate for the office of state representative; and
14. Child care services as provided in
			 sections 9-601 and 9-706 of the Connecticut General Statutes and substantiated
			 through documentation submitted by the candidate providing the information
			 required for the treasurer to authorize and disclose the associated
			 expenditure.