California Code of Regulations › Title 2 - Administration › Division 6 - Fair Political Practices Commission › Chapter 5 - Campaign Finance Reform › Section 18540 - Voluntary Expenditure Ceilings

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) For purposes of Government Code section
				85400,
				campaign expenditures shall be allocated to primary, general, special, or
				runoff elections as follows:
(1) Expenditures
				related to mailing or distribution of campaign literature, signs, buttons,
				bumper stickers and similar items, shall be allocated to the next election
				following the date(s) on which the expenditures were made or, if the election
				is held on the date when the expenditures were made, to the election held on
				that date.
(2) Expenditures related
				to publications in broadcast, print or electronic media shall be allocated to
				the next election following the date(s) specified in the contract for
				broadcast, publication, or dissemination or, if the election is held on the
				date specified for publication, broadcast, or dissemination, to the election
				held on that date.
(3) Expenditures
				related to telephone banks, including costs of design and operation, costs of
				installing or renting telephone lines and equipment, toll charges, personnel
				costs, rental of office space, and associated consultants' fees, shall be
				allocated to the next election following the date(s) on which the expenditures
				were made or, if the election is held on the date when the expenditures were
				made, to the election held on that date.
(4) Expenditures on professional services,
				including fees and costs of campaign consultants and pollsters, shall be
				allocated to the next election following the date(s) on which the expenditures
				were made or, if the election is held on the date when the expenditure was
				made, to the election held on that date. In the event that a contract for
				professional services allocates specific fees and costs to particular
				elections, the terms of the contract will govern allocation of expenditures to
				each election. If a contract provides for a bonus payment should the candidate
				win a particular election, the bonus payment is an expense of the election
				whose result triggers the payment obligation.
(5) Overhead expenditures, including
				expenditures related to the lease of office space, payments for utilities,
				rental or purchase of office equipment and furnishings, miscellaneous supplies,
				costs of internal copying and printing, monthly telephone charges, personnel
				costs, and candidate or staff travel expenses, shall be allocated to the next
				election following the date(s) on which the expenditures were made or, if the
				election is held on the date when the expenditures were made, to the election
				held on that date.
(6) Expenditures
				related to campaign fundraising shall be allocated to the election for which
				the funds were raised. If fundraising expenditures cannot be assigned in this
				manner to a particular election, fundraising expenditures shall be allocated to
				the next election following the date(s) on which the expenditures were made or,
				if the election is held on the date when the expense was incurred, to the
				election held on that date. Fundraising expenditures for the payment of debts
				under Government Code section
				85316
				shall not be counted against the voluntary expenditure ceilings established
				under Government Code section
				85400.
(7) Unless there is a clear indication to the
				contrary, campaign expenditures not described in subdivisions (a)(1) through
				(a)(6) of this regulation shall be allocated to the next election following the
				date(s) on which the expenditures were made or, if the election is held on the
				date when the expenditure was made, to the election held on that date. Refunds
				of any expenditure on goods or services not provided to or used by the campaign
				shall be credited to the election for which the expenditure would otherwise
				have been allocated.
(8) The
				candidate shall maintain records establishing that the candidate's allocation
				of campaign expenditures under Government Code section
				85400 was
				consistent with the provisions of the Act and of this
				regulation.