(a) Effective with election for city offices in 1987, no person shall make a contribution of more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) to any candidate for mayor or city council in any campaign. A campaign committee may contribute up to one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) to any candidate for mayor or city council, in the name of such group; provided further that no individual member of such committee shall contribute more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) toward the contribution, nor an aggregate amount of more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) to any candidate whether through a committee contribution or a personal contribution.
(b) No candidate for mayor or city council shall accept or receive a campaign contribution of more than five hundred dollars ($500.00) from any person or more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) from any campaign committee during any campaign period.
(1) Contributions include monies, loans, debts incurred, property-in-kind, or things having a monetary value incurred or received by a candidate or his agent or other person on behalf of the candidate for use in advocating or influencing the election of the candidate.
(2) The limitations imposed by this subchapter shall not apply to contributions by a candidate's own resources to the candidate's own campaign.
(3) The limitations imposed by this subchapter shall not apply to independent expenditures. "Independent or campaign committee expenditure" shall mean an expenditure by a person for a communication expressly advocating the support of or opposition to a clearly identified candidate which is not made with the cooperation or with the prior consent of a candidate or his agent or a controlled committee of a candidate.
(4) The limitations imposed by this section shall not apply to the value of in-kind labor.
(Ord. No. 6300, § 1, eff. 3-4-86)