Notwithstanding the provisions of this section, public funding candidates must comply with the requirements of the Tucson Charter and the campaign finance administration rules and regulations.
(a) No individual shall make a contribution of more than five hundred dollars ($500) to any candidate for mayor or council member during any campaign period.
(b) A political action committee may contribute up to one thousand dollars ($1,000) to any candidate for mayor or council member. No individual member of such committee shall contribute more than five hundred dollars ($500) toward the contribution, nor an aggregate amount of more than five hundred dollars ($500) to any candidate whether through a committee contribution or a personal contribution.
(c) No candidate for mayor or council member shall accept or receive a campaign contribution of more than five hundred dollars ($500) from any individual or more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) from any political action committee during any campaign period.
(d) An individual may only make contributions using personal monies, except that a contribution from an unemancipated minor child shall be treated as a contribution by the child's custodial parent or parents.
(e) A candidate committee shall not make contributions to a candidate committee for another candidate.
(f) A candidate committee may transfer unlimited contributions to any one or more other candidate committees for that same candidate under the following conditions:
(1) A candidate committee for mayor or council member shall not transfer contributions to that same candidate's committee for a statewide or legislative office.
(2) If a candidate committee for mayor or council member transfers contributions to a candidate committee for a county office for that same candidate, the candidate committee for the county office shall not transfer contributions to a statewide or legislative candidate committee for that same candidate during the twenty-four (24) months immediately following that transfer of contributions to the county candidate committee.
(3) Contributions originally made to the transferring candidate committee are deemed to be contributions to the receiving candidate committee. On transfer, an individual's aggregate contributions to both candidate committees during the election cycle shall not exceed the individual's contribution limit for that candidate.
(g) A candidate committee shall not knowingly accept contributions in excess of the contribution limits prescribed by law. A candidate committee that unknowingly accepts an excess contribution shall refund or reattribute any excess contribution within sixty (60) days after receipt of the contribution. A candidate committee may reattribute an excess contribution only if both of the following apply:
(1) The excess contribution was received from an individual contributor.
(2) The individual contributor authorizes the candidate committee to reattribute the excess amount to another individual who was identified as a joint account holder in the original instrument used to make the excess contribution.
(h) A candidate committee may accept contributions only from an individual, a partnership, a candidate committee, a political action committee or a political party.
(i) A candidate committee may make unlimited contributions to a person other than a candidate's committee.
(j) A candidate may contribute unlimited personal monies to the candidate's own candidate committee.
(k) A political action committee may only contribute to a candidate committee using monies contributed by an individual, a partnership, a candidate committee, a political action committee or a political party.
(l) A political action committee may make unlimited contributions to persons other than candidate committees.
(Ord. No. 11525, § 2, 2-21-18)