For purposes of the contribution limitations contained in this chapter, the following provisions shall apply:
.010 All contributions made by a sponsored committee to a city candidate or to an elective city officer (or to a committee controlled by such candidate or officer) shall be combined with those contributions made during the same election cycle by the sponsor(s) of the committee.
.020 Two or more entities shall be treated as one person when any of the following circumstances apply:
.0201 The entities share the majority of members of their boards of directors;
.0202 The entities are owned or controlled by the same majority shareholder or shareholders;
.0203 The entities are in a parent-subsidiary relationship.
.030 An individual and any partnership in which the individual is a general partner, or an individual and any corporation in which the individual owns a controlling interest (fifty percent or more), or an individual and any business entity in which the individual controls the decisions of such entity regarding the making of contributions to candidates for political office, regardless of the percentage of ownership, if any, of the individual in such business, shall be treated as one (1) person.
.040 Any contributions made by a committee in support of or in opposition to a city candidate shall be aggregated with the contributions made by any other committee in support of or in opposition to the same city candidate, if a majority of the officers of such committees are the same individuals. No committee shall act in concert with, or solicit or make contributions on behalf of, any other committee. This subsection shall not apply to treasurers of committees, if such treasurers do not participate in or control in any way a decision on whether the candidate or candidates receive contributions.
.050 Contributions by a married person shall be treated as the separate contributions of such person and shall not be aggregated with any contributions of the spouse of such person.
.060 Contributions by children under eighteen years of age shall be treated as contributions by their parent(s) or legal guardian(s) (one-half to each parent or guardian) unless only one parent or guardian has legal custody of such child, in which event any such contributions shall be attributed solely to the custodial parent. (Ord. 5704 § 2 (part); October 19, 1999; Ord. 5858 § 1 (part); May 20, 2003: Ord. 6197 § 5; November 16, 2010.)