A. Public Email:
1. Except as provided in subsection A5 of this section, a person may not send an email using the email of a public entity:
a. For a political purpose;
b. To advocate for or against a ballot proposition; or
c. To solicit a campaign contribution.
2. The applicable election officer shall impose a civil fine against a person who violates subsection A1 of this section as follows:
a. Up to two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) for a first violation; and
b. Except as provided in subsection A3 of this section, for each subsequent violation committed after any applicable election officer imposes a fine against the person for a first violation, the fine shall be one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) multiplied by the number of violations committed by the person.
3. The applicable election officer shall consider a violation of this section as a first violation if the violation is committed more than seven (7) years after the day on which the person last committed a violation of this section.
4. For purposes of this section, one violation means one act of sending an email, regardless of the number of recipients of the email.
5. A person does not violate this section if the Lieutenant Governor finds that the email described in subsection A1 of this section was inadvertently sent by the person described in subsection A1 of this section, using the email of a public entity.
6. A violation of this section does not invalidate an otherwise valid election. (Ord. 2017-1105-O, 11-21-2017)