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New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Chapter 25 - REGULATIONS OF THE ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Subchapter 5 - APPOINTMENT OF CAMPAIGN OFFICERS AND DEPOSITORIES › Section 19:25-5.2 - Qualifications of depositories

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(a) Any bank
				  authorized by law to transact business in and maintaining a branch or office in
				  the State of New Jersey may be designated for the purpose of establishing a
				  campaign or organizational depository, and may serve as the campaign or
				  organizational depository for any number of candidates or committees.
(b) For the limited purpose of investing
				  campaign or organizational funds, a recognized investment institution
				  authorized by law to transact business in the State of New Jersey may be
				  designated as an additional depository, provided that the invested funds are
				  not used for the benefit of any person or enterprise in which the candidate, or
				  a campaign or committee official, has an economic interest.
(c) Notwithstanding (a) above, a continuing
				  political committee may designate a bank or investment institution located
				  outside the State of New Jersey as an organizational depository provided that
				  the bank or investment institution files a consent to service of legal process
				  at an address within this State prior to accepting or receiving any
				  organizational funds.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Chapter 25 - REGULATIONS OF THE ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Subchapter 5 - APPOINTMENT OF CAMPAIGN OFFICERS AND DEPOSITORIES › Section 19:25-5.3 - Required treasurer training

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(a) Each
				  campaign treasurer of a candidate committee or a joint candidates committee for
				  a candidate, or candidates, for the Senate, the General Assembly or
				  gubernatorial candidate(s), shall, on or before filing a designation of
				  campaign treasurer and depository pursuant to N.J.A.C. 19:25-4, be a trained
				  campaign treasurer who has completed a treasurer training program offered by
				  the Commission or shall complete such training within 90 days of designation as
				  a campaign treasurer. Any other campaign treasurer of a candidate committee, a
				  joint candidates committee, or a political committee may be a trained
				  treasurer.
(b) Each organizational
				  treasurer of a State political party committee or of a legislative leadership
				  committee shall, on or before filing a designation of organizational treasurer
				  and depository pursuant to N.J.A.C. 19:25-4, be a trained organizational
				  treasurer, who has completed a treasurer training program offered by the
				  Commission or shall complete such training within 90 days of appointment as an
				  organizational treasurer. An organizational treasurer of any other political
				  party committee or a continuing political committee may be a trained
				  treasurer.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Chapter 25 - REGULATIONS OF THE ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Subchapter 5 - APPOINTMENT OF CAMPAIGN OFFICERS AND DEPOSITORIES › Section 19:25-5.4 - Deputy treasurers and additional depositories

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(a) A campaign
				  treasurer of a candidate committee or joint candidates committee may appoint
				  deputy campaign treasurers, and may designate additional campaign depositories
				  pursuant to
				  19:25-5.2.
(b) A campaign treasurer of a political
				  committee, or an organizational treasurer of a political party committee, a
				  continuing political committee, or a legislative leadership committee, may
				  appoint deputy campaign or organizational treasurers, and may designate
				  additional campaign organizational depositories.
(c) A campaign or organizational treasurer
				  appointing deputy treasurers or designating additional depositories shall no
				  later than five days after such appointment or designation file a notice,
				  certified as true and correct by such campaign or organizational treasurer,
				  containing the following information:
1. The
				  name of the committee;
2. The name
				  of the campaign or organizational treasurer;
3. The name, mailing and resident address and
				  phone number of each person appointed deputy campaign or deputy organizational
				  treasurer; and
4. The name, mailing
				  address and phone number of the bank at which each additional campaign or
				  organizational depository has been established, the account number of each
				  additional depository, and the names, mailing addresses and phone numbers of
				  all persons authorized to sign checks or otherwise make transactions for each
				  depository.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Chapter 25 - REGULATIONS OF THE ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Subchapter 5 - APPOINTMENT OF CAMPAIGN OFFICERS AND DEPOSITORIES › Section 19:25-5.5 - Removal or resignation of treasurers

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In the case of the death, resignation or removal of a
					 campaign treasurer, deputy campaign treasurer, organizational treasurer or
					 deputy organizational treasurer, the candidate or committee shall notify the
					 Commission of such event within 10 days of its occurrence. The candidate or
					 committee shall appoint a successor as soon as practicable but in no case more
					 than 20 days after such death, resignation or removal and shall notify the
					 Commission of the appointment of the successor and file his or her name and
					 address with the Commission within three days of such appointment.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Chapter 25 - REGULATIONS OF THE ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Subchapter 6 - RECEIPT AND USE OF FUNDS › Section 19:25-6.1 - Receipt and deposit of funds

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(a) Funds
				  received by a candidate committee, joint candidates committee, political
				  committee, continuing political committee, political party committee or
				  legislative leadership committee shall be delivered to the campaign or
				  organizational treasurer and deposited by that treasurer in the campaign or
				  organizational depository within 10 days of receipt by the committee, unless
				  transferred prior to deposit pursuant to
				  19:25-6.2.
(b) The date of receipt by a committee of any
				  funds is the date on which a campaign or organizational treasurer, or any other
				  person so authorized, receives funds on behalf of the candidate committee,
				  joint candidates committee, political committee, continuing political
				  committee, political party committee, or legislative leadership
				  committee.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Chapter 25 - REGULATIONS OF THE ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Subchapter 6 - RECEIPT AND USE OF FUNDS › Section 19:25-6.2 - Transfer of funds without deposit

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(a) A campaign or
				  organizational treasurer may transfer funds (without depositing them) to a duly
				  designated campaign or organizational treasurer of another candidate committee,
				  joint candidates committee, political committee, continuing political
				  committee, political party committee, or legislative leadership committee. Such
				  a transfer of funds without deposit must be made within 10 days of receipt of
				  the funds being transferred, and must be authorized by the candidate,
				  candidates or committee which designated the treasurer.
(b) Any amount transferred pursuant to (a)
				  above shall not be in excess of the amount that a candidate may contribute to
				  another candidate in any election pursuant to
				  19:44A-11.3, except that this
				  subsection shall not be construed to prohibit a county or municipal political
				  party committee from transferring funds as authorized in (a) above.
(c) A campaign or organizational treasurer
				  making any transfer pursuant to this section shall make a written record of all
				  non-deposited funds so transferred, identifying those funds as to source and
				  amount in the same manner as deposited funds, and a copy of that written record
				  shall be sent to the Commission under separate cover.
(c) A campaign or organizational treasurer
				  making any transfer pursuant to this section shall make a written record of all
				  non-deposited funds so transferred, identifying those funds as to source and
				  amount in the same manner as deposited funds, and a copy of that written record
				  shall be sent to the Commission under separate cover.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Chapter 25 - REGULATIONS OF THE ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Subchapter 6 - RECEIPT AND USE OF FUNDS › Section 19:25-6.3 - Receipt of transferred funds

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A candidate committee, joint candidates committee,
					 political committee, continuing political committee, political party committee,
					 or legislative leadership committee receiving any transfer of undeposited funds
					 shall deliver those funds to its organizational or campaign treasurer for
					 deposit in its campaign or organizational depository within 10 days of
					 receipt.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Chapter 25 - REGULATIONS OF THE ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Subchapter 6 - RECEIPT AND USE OF FUNDS › Section 19:25-6.4 - Expenditures through treasurer

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(a) No
				  expenditure of money or other thing of value, nor obligation therefor,
				  including, but not limited to, expenditures, loans or obligations of a
				  candidate or of the candidate's family, shall be made or incurred, directly or
				  indirectly, by a candidate committee, joint candidates committee, political
				  committee, continuing political committee, political party committee, or
				  legislative leadership committee except through:
1. The duly appointed campaign treasurer or
				  deputy campaign treasurers of the candidate committee, joint candidates
				  committee, or political committee;
2. The duly appointed organizational
				  treasurer or deputy organizational treasurers of a political party committee,
				  continuing political committee, or legislative leadership committee.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Chapter 25 - REGULATIONS OF THE ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Subchapter 6 - RECEIPT AND USE OF FUNDS › Section 19:25-6.5 - Use or disposition of campaign funds

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(a) All
				  contributions received by a candidate, candidate committee, joint candidates
				  committee, or legislative leadership committee shall be used only for the following
				  purposes:
1. The payment of "campaign expenses" as
				  that term is defined in (b) below.
2.
				  The making of donations to any charitable organization described in section
				  170(c) of the Internal Revenue
				  Code of 1954, as amended or modified, or non-profit organization that is exempt from
				  taxation under section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue
				  Code of 1954, except any charitable organization of which the candidate or a member
				  of the candidate's immediate family is a paid officer, director or employee or
				  receives compensation for goods or services provided to the organization;
3. Transmittal to another candidate, candidate
				  committee, joint candidates committee, political committee, continuing political
				  committee, legislative leadership committee, or political party committee for the
				  lawful use of such other candidate or committee;
4. The payment of the candidate committee's, joint
				  candidates committee's or legislative leadership committee's overhead and
				  administrative expenses related to its operation;
5. The pro-rata repayment of contributors, except
				  that contributors of $ 200.00 or less may be excluded from repayment; or
6. The payment of ordinary and necessary expenses
				  of holding public office, as provided in
				  19:25-6.7.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Chapter 25 - REGULATIONS OF THE ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Subchapter 6 - RECEIPT AND USE OF FUNDS › Section 19:25-6.6 - Limitations on permissible expenses

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(a) A candidate
				  committee, or a joint candidates committee, may pay a salary or fee to a family
				  member of a candidate who has established or who controls the committee
				  provided that the salary or fee paid for bona fide services received by the
				  committee does not exceed fair market value.
(b) A legislative leadership committee may
				  pay a salary or fee to a family member of a legislator who has established or
				  who controls the committee provided that the salary or fee paid for bona fide
				  services received by the committee does not exceed fair market value.
(c) A candidate committee, or a joint
				  candidates committee, may pay for the use of an office or other property owned
				  or leased by a candidate who has established or who controls the committee
				  provided that the office or property is used by the committee and the payment
				  does not exceed the fair market value for the bona fide use by the
				  committee.
(d) A legislative
				  leadership committee may pay for the use of an office or other property owned
				  by a legislator who has established or who controls the committee provided that
				  the office or property is used by the committee and the payment does not exceed
				  the fair market value for the bona fide use by the committee.
(e) A candidate committee, or a joint
				  candidates committee, may purchase goods or services for use by the committee
				  from a business or other enterprise in which the candidate who established or
				  who controls the committee has a financial interest provided that the goods or
				  services are bona fide and are sold to the committee at fair market value, or
				  if sold at less than fair market value, provided that the committee reports
				  receipt of an in-kind contribution in an amount that is the difference between
				  the purchase price paid by the committee and the fair market value of the goods
				  or services.
(f) A legislative
				  leadership committee may purchase goods or services for use by the committee
				  from a business or other enterprise in which the candidate who established or
				  who controls the committee has a financial interest provided that the goods or
				  services are bona fide and are sold to the committee at fair market value, or
				  if sold at less than fair market value, provided that the committee reports
				  receipt of an in-kind contribution in an amount that is the difference between
				  the purchase price paid by the committee and the fair market value of the goods
				  or services.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Chapter 25 - REGULATIONS OF THE ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Subchapter 6 - RECEIPT AND USE OF FUNDS › Section 19:25-6.8 - Vehicle use

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(a) A candidate
				  committee, joint candidates committee or legislative leadership committee may
				  reimburse a candidate or officeholder for the use of a vehicle owned by that
				  candidate or officeholder provided that:
1.
				  The candidate or officeholder provides the committee with written records of:
i. The date of the vehicle use;
ii. The departure and arrival locations of
				  the travel;
iii. The number of
				  miles the vehicle was used; and
iv.
				  The purpose of the use, which purpose must be for travel for campaign or
				  officeholding duties; and
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Chapter 25 - REGULATIONS OF THE ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Subchapter 6 - RECEIPT AND USE OF FUNDS › Section 19:25-6.9 - Funds remaining unspent at death of candidate

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Any funds remaining upon the death of a candidate in the
					 campaign depository of the deceased candidate's candidate committee, or joint
					 candidates committee, shall be used for one or more of the purposes set forth
					 in 19:25-6.5 by the committee's
					 treasurer, or by whomever has control of the depository upon the death of the
					 candidate.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Chapter 25 - REGULATIONS OF THE ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Subchapter 6 - RECEIPT AND USE OF FUNDS › Section 19:25-6.10 - Use of funds for legal fees

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(a)
				  Contributions received by a candidate committee, joint candidates committee or
				  legislative leadership committee may be used for reasonable fees and expenses
				  of legal representation, the need for which arises directly from and is related
				  to the campaign for public office or the ordinary and necessary duties of
				  holding public office. Examples of permissible uses of contributions, that is
				  campaign funds, to pay legal fees and expenses shall include, but not be
				  limited to, legal fees and expenses arising in connection with the following:
1. Litigation directly related to a recount
				  proceeding pursuant to
				  19:28-1 or an election contest
				  pursuant to
				  19:29-1, which proceeding or
				  action will determine the election or nonelection of the candidate whose
				  campaign funds are to be used to pay such expenses;
2. The defense of a defamation action against
				  the candidate or officeholder whose campaign funds are to be used to pay such
				  expenses, arising directly from the candidate's campaign for public office or
				  from activities of the officeholder directly related to the discharge of the
				  duties of holding public office;
3.
				  The defense of a civil action or administrative proceeding alleging a violation
				  of the Act and naming as a respondent or defendant the candidate or
				  officeholder whose campaign funds are to be used to pay such expenses;
				  and
4. The defense of an action or
				  proceeding before the Joint Legislative Committee on Ethical Standards or
				  similar public body having authority to hear such action or proceeding and to
				  impose sanctions against the officeholder by reason of his or her status as a
				  holder of public office.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Chapter 25 - REGULATIONS OF THE ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Subchapter 7 - RECORDKEEPING › Section 19:25-7.1 - Recordkeeping requirements

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(a) An
				  organizational or campaign treasurer, or deputy organizational or campaign
				  treasurer of a candidate committee, joint candidates committee, political
				  committee, continuing political committee, political party committee, or
				  legislative leadership committee, shall make and maintain a written record of
				  all funds and contributions, including non-monetary contributions, and shall
				  record the name and address of the contributor, the amount and date the
				  contribution was received, the name of the account on which a contribution
				  check is drawn and if the contributor is an individual, the occupation of the
				  individual and the name and mailing address of the individual's
				  employer.
(b) An organizational or
				  campaign treasurer, or deputy organizational or campaign treasurer, of a
				  candidate committee, joint candidates committee, political committee,
				  continuing political committee, political party committee, or legislative
				  leadership committee, shall make and maintain a written record of all funds
				  expended by the committee, including the name and address of the recipient, the
				  amount and date of the expenditure, and the purpose of the expenditure. The
				  organizational or campaign treasurer, or deputy organizational or deputy
				  campaign treasurer, shall include as part of the record of each expenditure a
				  receipt, invoice, bill, or other documentation for each expenditure made from
				  each campaign, organizational, or additional depository.
(c) The campaign or organizational treasurer
				  of a candidate committee, joint candidates committee, or legislative leadership
				  committee shall include as part of the record of any expenditure of such a
				  committee, a notation or other reference disclosing which of the six enumerated
				  permissible uses of funds set forth in
				  19:25-6.5(a)  is
				  applicable to the expenditure.
(d)
				  A candidate, the candidates of a joint candidates committee or the chair of a
				  political committee, continuing political committee, political party committee
				  or legislative leadership committee, shall take such steps as are necessary and
				  appropriate to insure that a campaign treasurer, or organizational treasurer,
				  appointed by the candidate committee, joint candidates committee, political
				  committee, continuing political committee, political party committee or
				  legislative leadership committee, complies with the recordkeeping requirements
				  of this section and this chapter.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Chapter 25 - REGULATIONS OF THE ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Subchapter 7 - RECORDKEEPING › Section 19:25-7.2 - Recordkeeping for credit card transactions

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(a) Whenever a
				  candidate committee, joint candidates committee, political committee,
				  continuing political committee, political party committee, or legislative
				  leadership committee purchases, or authorizes purchase of, goods or services by
				  use of a credit card, the campaign or organizational treasurer shall make and
				  maintain a record of the following information:
1. The exact name or title of the owner of
				  the card, and the name of the lending institution that issued the
				  card;
2. The date of the
				  purchase;
3. The name and address
				  of the vendor from whom the purchase was made;
4. The purpose of the purchase; and
5. The cost and description of the goods or
				  services purchased.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Chapter 25 - REGULATIONS OF THE ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Subchapter 7 - RECORDKEEPING › Section 19:25-7.3 - Period of retention

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All records required to be made pursuant to this
					 subchapter shall be maintained for a period of not less than four years after
					 the date of the election to which they are relevant, or a period of not less
					 than four years after the transaction to which they relate occurred, whichever
					 is longer.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Chapter 25 - REGULATIONS OF THE ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Subchapter 7 - RECORDKEEPING › Section 19:25-7.4 - Affidavit for missing records

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(a) An
				  organizational or campaign treasurer unable to produce any record required to
				  be made pursuant to
				  19:25-7.1, Recordkeeping
				  requirements, shall submit to the Commission within 10 days after the
				  Commission so requests an affidavit specifying which record cannot be produced
				  and the reasons the record is unavailable. The affidavit shall specify:
1. Whether a written record was made at the
				  time of the transaction and, if so, the name of the person who made it, the
				  position of that person in the campaign or organization, and the reasons the
				  record is no longer available; or
2. If no contemporaneous record was made, the
				  name of the person, if any, assigned responsibility for making such a record
				  and the reasons the record was not made.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Chapter 25 - REGULATIONS OF THE ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Subchapter 8 - CANDIDATE, JOINT CANDIDATES, AND POLITICAL COMMITTEE REPORTING › Section 19:25-8.1 - Candidate or joint candidates committee election fund reports

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(a) A
				  candidate committee, or a joint candidates committee, shall file election fund
				  reports of all contributions received, all expenditures made, and all other
				  transactions of the election fund subject to reporting under the Act and this
				  chapter.
(b) The term "election
				  fund reports" shall mean election-cycle reports as defined in
				  19:25-8.2(b),
				  or quarterly reports as defined in
				  19:25-8.3(b),
				  which reports shall be filed in accordance with 19:25-8.1 2, Time and place of
				  filing reports.
(c) The initial
				  election fund report of a candidate committee, or joint candidates committee,
				  shall be either a 29-day preelection report or a quarterly report. In the event
				  the committee is established within five months or less of the due date of the
				  29-day preelection report for the election in which the candidate or joint
				  candidates is or are seeking office, the committee shall file the 29-day
				  preelection report described in
				  19:25-8.2
				  report as its initial election fund report. However, if the committee is
				  established more than five months prior to the due date of the 29-day
				  preelection report for the election in which the candidate or joint candidates
				  is or are seeking office, the committee shall file as its initial election fund
				  report any quarterly report described in
				  19:25-8.3 that
				  is due for filing within five months of the date the committee is
				  established.
(d) The initial
				  election fund report shall begin with the reporting of the first contribution
				  received or expenditure made in the election (including funds or other benefits
				  received and payments made to determine whether or not an individual should
				  become a candidate), and shall report all subsequent contributions,
				  expenditures, or other reportable transactions of the election fund occurring
				  before the closing date applicable to the report.
(e) A candidate committee, or joint
				  candidates committee, shall continue to file election fund reports for an
				  election until such time as it terminates its reporting requirements and files
				  a final election fund report for that election pursuant to
				  19:25-8.7.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Chapter 25 - REGULATIONS OF THE ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Subchapter 8 - CANDIDATE, JOINT CANDIDATES, AND POLITICAL COMMITTEE REPORTING › Section 19:25-8.2 - Election-cycle reports

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(a) A candidate
				  committee, or joint candidates committee, shall file election-cycle reports
				  during any election in which the candidate, or joint candidates, is or are
				  seeking election, or nomination for election.
(b) The term "election-cycle reports" shall
				  mean the reports described below, which reports shall be due for filing on the
				  following dates and shall report all contributions, expenditures, or other
				  transactions of the election fund occurring within the following periods of
				  time:
1. The 29-day preelection report shall
				  be due for filing on the 29th day before the election. The 29-day preelection
				  report shall include all contributions received or expenditures made in an
				  election (including funds or other benefits received and payments made to
				  determine whether an individual should become a candidate) for the following
				  period of time: beginning with the first transaction made for an election, and
				  ending with the last transaction occurring on the 32nd day preceding the date
				  of the election. However, if the candidate committee, or joint candidates
				  committee, filed, or was required to file, a prior quarterly report pursuant to
				  19:25-8.3, its 29-day preelection
				  report shall begin with the first transaction occurring on the day after the
				  date on which the reporting period of the prior quarterly report
				  ended.
2. The 11-day preelection
				  report shall be due for filing on the 11th day before the election. The 11-day
				  preelection report shall include all contributions received or expenditures
				  made for the following period of time: beginning with the first transaction
				  occurring on the 31st day preceding the date of the election, and ending with
				  the last transaction occurring on the 14th day preceding the date of the
				  election; and
3. The 20-day
				  postelection report shall be due for filing on the 20th day following the
				  election. The 20-day postelection report shall include all contributions
				  received or expenditures made for the following period of time: beginning with
				  the first transaction occurring on the 13th day preceding the date of the
				  election, and ending with the last transaction occurring on the 17th day
				  following the date of the election.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Chapter 25 - REGULATIONS OF THE ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Subchapter 8 - CANDIDATE, JOINT CANDIDATES, AND POLITICAL COMMITTEE REPORTING › Section 19:25-8.2A - Winning primary election candidates

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(a) A candidate
				  who has won nomination for election to an office in a primary election, or the
				  candidates of a joint candidates committee who have won nomination to an office
				  for election in a primary election, shall designate the 20-day post election
				  report for that primary election described in
				  19:25-8.1 as the final report of
				  the candidate committee, or joint candidates committee, for that primary
				  election, and shall transfer the funds in the depository account, and
				  outstanding obligations and liabilities, to a depository account established
				  for the same office in the general election for which the candidate or
				  candidates have been nominated, except that a candidate or joint candidates
				  with net liabilities arising out of that primary election may maintain the
				  depository account for the purpose of retiring such net liabilities pursuant to
				  19:25-8.7A.
(b) A candidate, or joint candidates, winning
				  a primary election for the nomination for election to an office, and who has
				  designated his or her or their 20-day post election report for that primary
				  election as a final report pursuant to (a) above, shall next file a 29-day
				  preelection report described in
				  19:25-8.1 for the office in the
				  general election for which the candidate or candidates have been nominated.
				  Such report shall include all contributions received or expenditures made for
				  the following period of time: beginning with the first transaction occurring on
				  or after the 18th day following the date of the primary election, and ending
				  with the last transaction occurring on the 32nd day preceding the date of the
				  election.
(c) A candidate, or joint
				  candidates, may designate the depository account that the candidate, or joint
				  candidates, established for a primary election for an office as the depository
				  account of the candidate, or joint candidates, for a general election for that
				  office provided the candidate, or joint candidates, files or file a new
				  designation pursuant to
				  19:25-4.1A(b)  or
				  4.2(c).
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Chapter 25 - REGULATIONS OF THE ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Subchapter 8 - CANDIDATE, JOINT CANDIDATES, AND POLITICAL COMMITTEE REPORTING › Section 19:25-8.3 - Quarterly reports

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(a) A candidate
				  committee, or joint candidates committee, shall file quarterly reports for any
				  period of time it is not required to file election-cycle reports pursuant to
				  19:25-8.2.
(b) The term "quarterly reports" shall mean
				  the reports described below, which reports shall be due for filing and shall
				  include the following periods of time:
1. The
				  first quarterly report shall be due for filing on April 15 of a calendar year.
				  The first quarterly report shall include all contributions received or
				  expenditures made for the following period of time: beginning with the first
				  transaction occurring on or after January 1 of the calendar year of the filing
				  date, and ending with the last transaction occurring on March 31 of that
				  calendar year;
2. The second
				  quarterly report shall be due for filing on July 15 of a calendar year. The
				  second quarterly report shall include all contributions received or
				  expenditures made for the following period of time: beginning with the first
				  transaction occurring on or after April 1 of the calendar year of the filing
				  date, and ending with the last transaction occurring on June 30 of that
				  calendar year;
3. The third
				  quarterly report shall be due for filing on October 15 of a calendar year. The
				  third quarterly report shall include all contributions received or expenditures
				  made for the following period of time: beginning with the first transaction
				  occurring on or after July 1 of the calendar year of the filing date, and
				  ending with the last transaction occurring on September 30 of that calendar
				  year; and
4. The fourth quarterly
				  report shall be due for filing on January 15 of a calendar year. The fourth
				  quarterly report shall include all contributions received and expenditures made
				  for the following period of time: beginning with the first transaction
				  occurring on or after October 1 of the calendar year preceding the calendar
				  year of the filing date, and ending with the last transaction occurring on
				  December 31 of the calendar year preceding the calendar year of the filing
				  date.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Chapter 25 - REGULATIONS OF THE ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Subchapter 8 - CANDIDATE, JOINT CANDIDATES, AND POLITICAL COMMITTEE REPORTING › Section 19:25-8.4 - Candidate certified statements (Form A-1 or A-2)

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(a)
				  There shall be no obligation to file the election fund reports referred to at
				  N.J.A.C.
				  19:25-8.1 on behalf of any candidate committee of
				  a candidate who files no later than five months after the date on which the
				  committee is established, or no later than the 29th day before the election in which
				  the candidate is seeking office, whichever is earlier, a certified statement (Form
				  A-1) to the effect that the total amount expended or to be expended on behalf of his
				  or her candidacy by the candidate committee, or by any candidate committee, joint
				  candidates committee, political committee, continuing political committee, political
				  party committee, legislative leadership committee, or person shall not, in the
				  aggregate, exceed $ 5,800 in that election.
(b) There shall be no obligation to file the
				  election fund reports referred to at
				  N.J.A.C.
				  19:25-8.1 on behalf of a joint candidates
				  committee if the joint committee files no later than five months after the date on
				  which the committee is established, or no later than the 29th day before the
				  election in which the joint candidates are seeking office, whichever is earlier, a
				  certified statement (Form A-2) to the effect that the total amount to be expended on
				  behalf of the joint candidacies by the joint candidates committee or by any
				  candidate committee, joint candidates committee, political committee, continuing
				  political committee, political party committee, legislative leadership committee, or
				  person shall, not in the aggregate, exceed the following amounts:
1. In the case of a joint candidates committee
				  consisting of two candidates, $ 11,000 in the election; or
2. In the case of a joint candidates committee
				  consisting of three or more candidates, $ 15,800 in the election.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Chapter 25 - REGULATIONS OF THE ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Subchapter 8 - CANDIDATE, JOINT CANDIDATES, AND POLITICAL COMMITTEE REPORTING › Section 19:25-8.5 - Candidate not receiving contributions or making expenditures

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A candidate who has not established a candidate committee
					 or appointed a treasurer and opened a campaign depository because no
					 contributions have been received and no expenditures have been made, and who
					 reasonably expects not to receive any contributions or make any expenditures in
					 the election in which the candidate is seeking office, shall file a certified
					 statement (Form A-1) so indicating no later than the 29th day preceding the
					 date of the election in which the candidate is seeking office. In the event the
					 candidate subsequently receives a contribution in the election, including a
					 contribution of the candidate's own funds, the candidate must establish a
					 candidate committee as provided by
					 19:25-4.1 and file reports
					 pursuant to N.J.A.C. 19:25-8.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Chapter 25 - REGULATIONS OF THE ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Subchapter 8 - CANDIDATE, JOINT CANDIDATES, AND POLITICAL COMMITTEE REPORTING › Section 19:25-8.6 - Contributions received immediately before an election

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(a) A candidate, or a campaign treasurer of a
				  candidate committee or joint candidates committee, shall file a notice (Form C-1 or
				  72/24-HR) of any contribution in excess of $ 200.00, or any aggregate contributions
				  from a contributor, which total in excess of $ 200.00, received on or after the 13th
				  day preceding the date of an election in which the candidate, or joint candidates,
				  is, or are, seeking election, and received up to and including the date of the
				  election, which notice shall contain:
1. The name
				  of the recipient candidate committee, or joint candidates committee;
2. The date the contribution was
				  received;
3. The amount of the
				  contribution;
4. The name and mailing
				  address of the contributor; and
5. If
				  the contributor is an individual, the occupation of the individual and the name and
				  mailing address of the individual's employer.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Chapter 25 - REGULATIONS OF THE ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Subchapter 8 - CANDIDATE, JOINT CANDIDATES, AND POLITICAL COMMITTEE REPORTING › Section 19:25-8.6A - Expenditures made immediately before an election

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(a) A candidate, or a campaign treasurer of a
				  candidate committee or joint candidates committee, shall file a notice (Form E-1 or
				  72/24-HR) with the Commission of an expenditure of money or other thing of value in
				  excess of $ 200.00, or aggregate expenditures that total in excess of $ 200.00,
				  made, incurred, or authorized by the candidate committee or joint candidates
				  committee to support or defeat a candidate in an election, or to aid the passage or
				  defeat of any public question, during the period of time between the 13th day prior
				  to the election and the date of the election, which notice shall contain:
1. The name of the candidate or joint candidates
				  making the expenditure;
2. The name of
				  the person, firm, or organization to whom or which the expenditure was paid;
				  and
3. The amount and purpose of the
				  expenditure.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Chapter 25 - REGULATIONS OF THE ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Subchapter 8 - CANDIDATE, JOINT CANDIDATES, AND POLITICAL COMMITTEE REPORTING › Section 19:25-8.7 - Termination of candidate reporting

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(a) A candidate
				  committee, or a joint candidates committee, shall certify its 20-day
				  postelection report or its first quarterly postelection report as its final
				  election fund report for an office in an election and thereby terminate further
				  quarterly reporting for that office in that election, with the following
				  exceptions:
1. The candidate is maintaining
				  the committee for the sole purpose of receiving contributions to retire net
				  liabilities of the election pursuant to
				  19:25-8.7A;
2. The candidate is maintaining the committee
				  to receive contributions and make expenditures pursuant to
				  19:25-11.1 2 or 12.11 because of a
				  recount or election contest being conducted for that office in the election;
				  or
3. The candidate is or will
				  become an elected officeholder and has no current intention to seek reelection
				  to that office or election to another office subject to the Act, and is
				  maintaining the committee for the limited purpose of paying officeholding
				  expenses. Such a candidate shall not receive contributions on or after the date
				  when the candidate ceases to be an officeholder and shall spend any funds
				  remaining in the campaign depository or depositories pursuant to
				  19:44A-11.2 and N.J.A.C.
				  19:25-6.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Chapter 25 - REGULATIONS OF THE ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Subchapter 8 - CANDIDATE, JOINT CANDIDATES, AND POLITICAL COMMITTEE REPORTING › Section 19:25-8.7A - Retirement of net liabilities

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(a) A candidate
				  committee, or joint candidates committee, which files a 20-day postelection
				  report reporting outstanding liabilities in excess of the total assets of the
				  committee including its cash balance in all of the candidate committee
				  depositories for an office in an election, otherwise referred to in this
				  section as net liabilities, may continue to receive contributions to satisfy
				  such net liabilities for that past election for that office, subject to the
				  following:
1. Each contribution received
				  shall indicate in writing a clear designation from the contributor indicating
				  the office and past election to which the contribution is to be
				  applied;
2. Each contribution
				  received shall be aggregated with any other contribution made by that
				  contributor for that office in that past election, and the aggregate
				  contribution cannot exceed the applicable contribution limit for that past
				  election; and
3. Each contribution
				  received shall be deposited into the campaign depository account established
				  for the office in the past election.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Chapter 25 - REGULATIONS OF THE ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Subchapter 8 - CANDIDATE, JOINT CANDIDATES, AND POLITICAL COMMITTEE REPORTING › Section 19:25-8.8 - Political committee election fund reports

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(a) A
				  political committee receiving or expending $ 3,200 or more in an election shall
				  file election fund reports of all contributions received, all expenditures
				  made, and all other financial transactions of its election fund subject to
				  reporting, and such reports shall be filed on the same dates and be pertinent
				  to the same periods of time as set forth at
				  N.J.A.C.
				  19:25-8.1for candidate committee
				  reports.
(b) The campaign treasurer
				  of the political committee shall file and certify the correctness of the
				  reports described in (a) above, and shall certify that no contributions have
				  been received in violation of the contribution limits prescribed by the
				  Act.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Chapter 25 - REGULATIONS OF THE ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Subchapter 8 - CANDIDATE, JOINT CANDIDATES, AND POLITICAL COMMITTEE REPORTING › Section 19:25-8.9 - Political committee contributions received immediately before an election

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(a) A campaign
				  treasurer of a political committee shall file a notice (Form C-1 or 72/24-HR) of any
				  contribution in excess of $ 200.00, or any aggregate contributions from a
				  contributor, which total in excess of $ 200.00, received on or after the 13th day
				  preceding the date of the election and received up to and including the date of the
				  election, which notice shall contain:
1. The name
				  of the recipient political committee;
2.
				  The date the contribution was received;
3. The amount of the contribution;
4. The name and mailing address of the
				  contributor; and
5. If the contributor
				  is an individual, the occupation of the individual and the name and mailing address
				  of the individual's employer.
New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Chapter 25 - REGULATIONS OF THE ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Subchapter 8 - CANDIDATE, JOINT CANDIDATES, AND POLITICAL COMMITTEE REPORTING › Section 19:25-8.10 - Political committee expenditures made immediately before an election

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(a) A campaign treasurer of a political committee
				  shall file a notice (Form E-1 or 72/24-HR) of any expenditure of money or other
				  thing of value in excess of $ 200.00 made, incurred, or authorized by the political
				  committee to support or defeat a candidate in an election, or to aid the passage or
				  defeat of a public question, which expenditure is made, incurred, or authorized on
				  or after the 13th day preceding the date of the election and up to and including the
				  date of the election. The notice shall contain:
1.
				  The name of the political committee;
2.
				  The name and mailing address of the person, firm or recipient; or organization to
				  whom or which the expenditure was paid or given; and
3. The amount and purpose of the
				  expenditure.