N.Y. Election Law 14-204 – Limits on public financing
§ 14-204. Limits on public financing. The following limitations apply to the total amounts of public funds that may be provided to a participating candidate's authorized committee for an election cycle:
Terms Used In N.Y. Election Law 14-204
- candidate: means an individual who seeks nomination for election, or election, to any public office or party position to be voted for at a primary, general or special or New York city community school district election or election for trustee of the Long Island Power Authority, whether or not the public office or party position has been specifically identified at such time and whether or not such individual is nominated or elected, and, for purposes of this subdivision, an individual shall be deemed to seek nomination for election, or election, to an office or position, if he has (1) taken the action necessary to qualify himself for nomination for election, or election, or (2) received contributions or made expenditures, given his consent for any other person to receive contributions or make expenditures, with a view to bringing about his nomination for election, or election, to any office or position at any time whether in the year in which such contributions or expenditures are made or at any other time; and
8. See N.Y. Election Law 14-100 - contribution: means :
(1) any gift, subscription, outstanding loan (to the extent provided for in section 14-114 of this chapter), advance, or deposit of money or any thing of value, made in connection with the nomination for election, or election, of any candidate, or made to promote the success or defeat of a political party or principle, or of any ballot proposal,
(2) any funds received by a political committee from another political committee to the extent such funds do not constitute a transfer,
(3) any payment, by any person other than a candidate or a political committee authorized by the candidate, made in connection with the nomination for election or election of any candidate, including any payment or expenditure where coordination has occurred as defined in section 14-107 of this article, or any payment made to promote the success or defeat of a political party or principle, or of any ballot proposal including but not limited to compensation for the personal services of any individual which are rendered in connection with a candidate's election or nomination without charge; provided however, that none of the foregoing shall be deemed a contribution if it is made, taken or performed by a candidate or his spouse or by a person or a political committee independent of the candidate or his agents or authorized political committees. See N.Y. Election Law 14-100 - election: means all general, special and primary elections, but shall not include elections provided for pursuant to the education law, special district elections, fire district elections or library district elections. See N.Y. Election Law 14-100
1. In any primary election, receipt of public funds by participating candidates and by their participating committees shall not exceed:
(a) for Governor $3,500,000
(b) for Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General or Comptroller $3,500,000
(c) for State Senator $375,000
(d) for Member of the Assembly $175,000
2. In any general or special election, receipt of public funds by a participating candidate's authorized committees shall not exceed:
(a) for Governor and Lieutenant Governor (combined) $3,500,000
(b) for Attorney General $3,500,000
(c) for Comptroller $3,500,000
(d) for State Senator $375,000
(e) for Member of the Assembly $175,000
3. No participating candidate for nomination for an office who is not opposed by a candidate on the ballot in a primary election shall be entitled to payment of public matching funds, except that, where there is a contest in such primary election for the nomination of at least one of the two political parties with the highest and second highest number of enrolled members for such office, a participating candidate who is unopposed in the primary election may receive public funds before the primary election, for expenses incurred on or before the date of such primary election, in an amount equal to up to half the sum set forth in paragraph one of this section.
4. Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the amount of private funds a candidate may receive subject to the contribution limits contained in section 14-114 of this article. Any contributions so received which are not expended in the general election may be applied to the next covered election for an office for which such candidate seeks nomination or election.
5. A candidate only on the ballot in one or more primary elections in which the number of persons eligible to vote for party nominees in each such election totals fewer than one thousand shall not receive public funds in excess of five thousand dollars for qualified campaign expenditures in such election or elections. For the purposes of this section, the number of persons eligible to vote for party nominees in a primary election shall be as determined by the state board of elections for the calendar year of the primary election. A candidate for office on the ballot in more than one primary for such office, shall be deemed, for purposes of this recommendation, to be a single candidate.