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(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)
(a) Effective with elections for city offices in 1987, a candidate for mayor or city council may sign a contract with the city agreeing to abide by limitations on candidate's contributions, limitations on campaign expenditures, and limitations on the use of all contributions as specified in the City Charter in exchange for public matching funds.
(b) The campaign contract must be signed by the individual candidate either within thirty (30) days after the individual becomes a candidate or at the time of filing for said office, whichever is earlier.
(Ord. No. 6300, § 1, eff. 3-4-86)
A candidate who signs a campaign contract shall make no contributions to their own campaign or campaign committee which in the aggregate exceeds three (3) percent of the applicable expenditure limit in any campaign period.
(Ord. No. 6300, § 1, eff. 3-4-86)
(a) A candidate who signs a campaign contract in accordance with section 1 of the [this] subchapter shall not, during the campaign period, make expenditures exceeding the aggregate amount of forty cents ($0.40) per City of Tucson registered voter for the office of mayor or twenty cents ($0.20) per City of Tucson registered voter for the office of city council.
(b) Independent expenditures, as defined by this chapter, shall not be included in the computation of a candidate's expenditures.
(c) The expenditure amounts per City of Tucson registered voter shall be adjusted by the percentage change in the Consumer Price Index as reported by the U.S. Department of Commerce or its successor agency.
(d) No more than seventy-five (75) percent of the eligible expenditure limitation shall be spent through the day of the primary election.
(Ord. No. 6300, § 1, eff. 3-4-86)
(a) To be eligible to receive public matching funds, a candidate for mayor or city council must meet the requirements of the City Charter; and during the campaign period:
(1) For the office of mayor, receive three hundred (300) contributions of ten dollars ($10.00) or more;
(2) For the office of city council, receive two hundred (200) contributions of ten dollars ($10.00) or more.
(b) For purposes of establishing eligibility under this section, only those contributions received from residents of the City of Tucson shall be counted toward the requirement.
(c) Candidates must submit evidence of meeting the eligibility requirements of this section to the office of the campaign finance administrator for verification. Upon verification of eligibility, a candidate who has signed a campaign contract shall be eligible to receive public matching funds; provided that no such funds shall be disbursed to any qualified candidate prior to January 1 of the year in which the candidate's election is to be held and, provided further, that any candidate who receives public matching funds and later fails to file for public office or withdraws as a candidate after filing shall, no later than ten (10) days following such event, return to the election campaign account an amount equal to the public funds disbursed to that candidate.
(Ord. No. 6300, § 1, eff. 3-4-86)
(a) A candidate who has met the eligibility requirements for public matching funds and who has signed a campaign contract shall be entitled to receive one dollar ($1.00) in public matching funds for each dollar received during the campaign period from any individual contribution. Neither loans nor the transfers of anything of value other than money to the candidate or the candidate's campaign committee shall be matched with public funds.
(b) If following the election wherein the candidate is elected or defeated, the candidate has unexpended campaign contributions, any surplus shall be returned to the election campaign account until the full amount of public matching funds disbursed has been returned. Any remaining unexpended campaign contributions shall be returned to the election campaign account, contributors, or to a non-profit charitable organization. All unexpended campaign contributions must be disbursed no later than the first Monday in December following the election. (Ord. No. 7684, § 1, eff. 12-30-91)
(c) A candidate who has signed a campaign contract may void the contract within fifteen (15) days after the close of filing, provided, an opponent of that candidate does not enter into a campaign contract pursuant to this subchapter; and provided further, that the candidate returns all public funds received to the election campaign account no later than ten (10) days following such event.
(Ord. No. 6300, § 1, eff. 3-4-86)
Editors Note: Subsection (b) was amended by Ord. No. 7684, adopted Sept. 3, 1991; approved at referendum Nov. 5, 1991; certified by the mayor Nov. 12, 1991; and approved by the governor Dec. 30, 1991. The measure provided for disposition of all surplus funds rather than half as before and added the third sentence.
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