Arizona Laws 16-915. Political party contribution limits; requirements
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A. A political party may not contribute more than the following amounts per election cycle:
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 16-915
- Action: includes any matter or proceeding in a court, civil or criminal. See Arizona Laws 1-215
- Candidate: means an individual who receives contributions or makes expenditures or who gives consent to another person to receive contributions or make expenditures on behalf of that individual in connection with the candidate's nomination, election or retention for any public office. See Arizona Laws 16-901
- Candidate committee: includes the candidate. See Arizona Laws 16-901
- Committee: means a candidate committee, a political action committee or a political party. See Arizona Laws 16-901
- District office: means an elected office established or organized pursuant to title 15 or 48. See Arizona Laws 16-901
- Election: means any election for any ballot measure in this state or any candidate election during a primary, general, recall, special or runoff election for any office in this state other than a federal office and a political party office prescribed by chapter 5, article 2 of this title. See Arizona Laws 16-901
- Legislative office: means the office of representative in the state house of representatives or senator in the state senate. See Arizona Laws 16-901
- Nominee: means a candidate who prevails in a primary election for partisan office and includes the nominee's candidate committee. See Arizona Laws 16-901
- Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
- Political party: means a committee that meets the requirements for recognition as a political party pursuant to chapter 5 of this title. See Arizona Laws 16-901
- Statewide office: means the office of governor, secretary of state, state treasurer, attorney general, superintendent of public instruction, corporation commissioner or mine inspector. See Arizona Laws 16-901
1. Ten thousand dollars to the party’s nominee for a city, town, county or district office.
2. Ten thousand dollars to the party’s nominee for legislative office.
3. One hundred thousand dollars to the party’s nominee for statewide office.
B. A political party may only contribute to nominees using monies contributed by an individual, a partnership, a candidate committee, a political action committee or a political party.
C. A political party shall not contribute to candidate committees other than nominees.
D. A political party may make unlimited contributions to persons other than candidate committees and nominees.