Arizona Laws 16-917. Partnership contribution limits; requirements
A. A partnership may not contribute more than the following amounts per election cycle:
Terms Used In Arizona Laws 16-917
- 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
- Contribution: means any money, advance, deposit or other thing of value that is made to a person for the purpose of influencing an election. See Arizona Laws 16-901
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- 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
- Labor organization: means any employee representation organization that exists for the purpose of dealing with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours of employment or other conditions of employment. 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
- 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.
- Separate segregated fund: means a fund established by a corporation, limited liability company, labor organization or partnership that is required to register as a political action committee. 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. Six thousand two hundred fifty dollars to a candidate committee for city, town, county or district office.
2. Six thousand two hundred fifty dollars to a candidate committee for legislative office.
3. Six thousand two hundred fifty dollars to a candidate committee for statewide office.
B. A partnership may make unlimited contributions to persons other than candidate committees.
C. Partnership contributions are subject to the following:
1. Partnership contributions shall be attributed to each contributing partner as designated by the partnership. The partnership shall provide the recipient committee written notice identifying the contributing partners and the amount attributed to each.
2. Partnership contributions shall count against both the partnership’s and the individual partners’ contribution limits to a recipient. The portion attributed to each partner shall be aggregated with the individual partner’s nonpartnership contributions to that recipient and shall not exceed the individual partner’s contribution limit.
3. The partnership shall not attribute any contribution to a partner that is a corporation, limited liability company or labor organization.
4. Partnership contributions need not be accompanied by the signature of each contributing partner.
D. A partnership may establish a separate segregated fund as prescribed in section 16-916.