New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Chapter 25 - REGULATIONS OF THE ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Subchapter 16 - PUBLIC FINANCING OF PRIMARY ELECTION FOR GOVERNOR › Section 19:25-16.10 - Who may or may not contribute

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) No person,
				  other than a candidate contributing the candidate's own funds to the
				  candidate's campaign, candidate committee, joint candidates committee,
				  political committee, continuing political committee, political party committee,
				  or legislative leadership committee shall make any contribution to any
				  candidate, the candidate's campaign treasurer, or deputy campaign treasurer, or
				  to any other person or committee, in aid of the candidacy of, or on behalf of,
				  a candidate, whether or not participating in public funding, for nomination for
				  election to the office of Governor in a primary election, in the aggregate in
				  excess of $ 4,900. Any such contribution in excess of $ 4,900 must be returned
				  to the contributor pursuant to the requirements of
				  N.J.A.C.
				  19:25-11.8, and evidence of the repayment
				  shall be submitted to the Commission.
(b) A joint candidates committee established
				  by candidates who has not established any candidate committees in an election
				  may make a contribution to a candidate for nomination for election to the
				  office of Governor in an amount not to exceed the sum of the number of
				  candidates participating in the joint candidates committee multiplied by $
				  4,900. If a candidate has established both a candidate committee and a joint
				  candidates committee in an election, the total amount that may be contributed
				  by that candidate's joint candidates committee and candidate committee to a
				  candidate for nomination for election to the office of Governor may not exceed
				  $ 4,900 per candidate participating in the joint candidates
				  committee.
(c) Subject to the
				  limitations contained in this subchapter and the Act, any person may contribute
				  to more than one candidate.
(d) A
				  corporation, association, or labor organization or any subsidiary, affiliate,
				  branch, division, department, or local unit of any such corporation,
				  association, or labor organization shall not make any contribution to, or on
				  behalf of, a candidate that, when added to any other contribution by any
				  related or affiliated corporation, association, or labor organization, exceeds
				  $ 4,900 in the aggregate. Whether such corporation, association, or labor
				  organization is related or affiliated shall depend on the circumstances
				  existing at the time of such contribution, including, but not by way of
				  limitation, the degree of control or common ownership with related or
				  affiliated corporations, associations, or labor organizations, the source and
				  control of funds used for such contribution, and the degree to which the
				  decisions whether to contribute, to what candidate, and in what amount are
				  independent decisions.
(e) In
				  considering the criteria set forth in (d) above, two or more corporations shall
				  be conclusively deemed to be affiliated if:
1.
				  Any individual, corporation, partnership, company, association, or other entity
				  owns, directly or indirectly, more than a 30 percent interest in each of such
				  corporations; or
2. One such
				  corporation owns, directly or indirectly, more than a 30 percent interest in
				  the other such corporation.