New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 19 - OTHER AGENCIES › ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Chapter 25 - REGULATIONS OF THE ELECTION LAW ENFORCEMENT COMMISSION › Subchapter 11 - CONTRIBUTION LIMITS › Section 19:25-11.14 - Solicitation and making of contributions on State property prohibited

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) For the
				  purposes of this section, the terms "contribution," "candidate," "candidate
				  committee" and "joint candidates committee," shall have the meanings prescribed
				  for those terms in the Act and at
				  19:25-1.7; and the term "property"
				  means buildings used for the discharge of official government functions,
				  business, duties or purposes.
(b)
				  No candidate for nomination for or for election to the offices of Governor and
				  of Lieutenant Governor, or for nomination for or for election to the office of
				  member of the Legislature, or any holder of that elective public office, or
				  their agent or representative, while located on any property exclusively owned
				  or leased by the State, or any agency of the State, shall, directly or
				  indirectly, solicit any contribution to or on behalf of any candidate for
				  nomination for or for election to the offices of Governor and of Lieutenant
				  Governor, or for nomination for or for election to the office of member of the
				  Senate or General Assembly, or any candidate for another elective public office
				  held or sought by a candidate for or holder of the office of member of the
				  Legislature, or the candidate committee or joint candidates committee of any
				  such candidate.
(c) The provisions
				  of this section shall not apply to any casual or inadvertent communication
				  otherwise made in connection with, but without intent to solicit, such a
				  contribution.
(d) No person, while
				  located on any property exclusively owned or leased by the State, or any agency
				  of the State, shall, directly or indirectly, make any contribution to or on
				  behalf of any candidate for nomination for or for election to the offices of
				  Governor and of Lieutenant Governor, or for nomination for or for election to
				  the office of member of the Senate or General Assembly, or any candidate for
				  another elective public office held or sought by a candidate for or holder of
				  the office of member of the Legislature, or the candidate committee or joint
				  candidates committee of any such candidate.
(e) Any candidate for nomination for or for
				  election to the offices of Governor and of Lieutenant Governor, or for
				  nomination for or for election to the office of member of the Legislature or
				  any holder of that elective public office, or their agent or representative, or
				  any person, who is determined by the Commission to have violated this section
				  shall be liable to a penalty of not less than $ 5,000 for each violation, which
				  penalty may be recovered by a summary proceeding pursuant to the "Penalty
				  Enforcement Law of 1999" (
				  P.L.
				  1999, c. 274
				  ).
(f) In the event property
				  exclusively owned or leased by the State, or any agency of the State, or part
				  thereof, is made available, through rent, reservation or otherwise, for the
				  exclusive use of any group for a non-governmental purpose as a meeting
				  location, the prohibition in (b) above shall not apply, and the solicitation or
				  making of contributions or funds of any nature from any or among or by the
				  members of the group during the time the group is using the property made
				  available as a meeting location is permitted.