New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Chapter 25 - REGULATIONS OF THE ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Subchapter 10 - CONTRIBUTION REPORTING › Section 19:25-10.10 - Political communication contributions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) The term
				  "political communication" means any written or electronic statement, pamphlet,
				  advertisement or other printed or broadcast matter or statement, communication,
				  or advertisement delivered or accessed by electronic means, including, but not
				  limited to, the Internet, containing an explicit appeal for the election or
				  defeat of a candidate which is circulated or broadcast to an audience
				  substantially comprised of persons eligible to vote for the candidate on whose
				  behalf the appeal is directed. Words such as "Vote for (name of candidate),"
				  "Vote against (name of opposing candidate)," "Elect (name of candidate),"
				  "Support name (name of candidate)," "Defeat (name of opposing candidate),"
				  "Reject (name of opposing candidate)," and other similar explicit political
				  directives constitute examples of appeals for the election or defeat of a
				  candidate.
(b) A written statement,
				  pamphlet, advertisement, or other printed or broadcast matter or statement,
				  communication, or advertisement delivered or accessed by electronic means,
				  including, but not limited to, the Internet, that does not contain an explicit
				  appeal pursuant to (a) above for the nomination for election or for the
				  election or defeat of a candidate shall be deemed to be a political
				  communication if it meets the following conditions:
1. The communication is circulated or
				  broadcast within 90 days of the date of any election in which the candidate on
				  whose behalf the communication is made is seeking nomination for election or
				  elected office; except that in the case of a candidate for nomination for the
				  office of Governor in a primary election, the period of time that a
				  communication shall be deemed political shall be on or after January 1st in a
				  year in which a primary election for Governor is being conducted, in the case
				  of a candidate for election to the office of Governor in a general election,
				  the period of time that a communication shall be deemed political shall begin
				  on the day following the date of the gubernatorial primary election, and in the
				  case of a candidate for election to the office of Lieutenant Governor in a
				  general election, the period of time that a communication shall be deemed
				  political shall begin on the day following certification pursuant to
				  19:25-15.4A;
2. The communication is circulated or
				  broadcast to an audience substantially comprised of persons eligible to vote
				  for the candidate on whose behalf the communication was made;
3. The communication contains a statement or
				  reference concerning the governmental or political objectives or achievements
				  of the candidate; and
4. The
				  production, circulation or broadcast of the communication, or any cost
				  associated with the production, circulation or broadcast of the communication,
				  has been made in whole or in part with the cooperation of, prior consent of, in
				  consultation with, or at the request or suggestion of the candidate.