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§ 6. GENERAL ELECTION CAMPAIGN EXPENSES LIMITED.] sum of money shall be paid and no expenses authorized or incurred by or on behalf of any candidate who has received the nomination to any public office or position in this state, except such as he may contribute toward payment of his political party's or independent statement in the pamphlet herein provided for in excess of fifteen (15) per cent of the annual salary of the office for which he is nominated; provided, that no candidate shall be restricted to less than two hundred dollars. [1911, ch. 129.]

§ 7. ITEMIZED STATEMENTS FILED.] Every candidate for nomination or election to public office, including the offices of senators of the United States, shall within fifteen days after the primary or general election at which he was a candidate, file with the secretary of state, if a candidate for senator of the United States, representative in congress, or for any state or district office, in a district composed of one or more counties, but with the county auditor for legislative districts composed of not more than one county, an itemized statement setting forth in detail all the moneys contributed, expended or promised by him to aid and promote his nomination or election, or both, as the case may be, and for the election of his party candidates, and all existing unfulfilled promises of every character and all liabilities in force at the time of such statement, and if no money or other valuable thing was paid or promised, he shall file a statement to that effect within fifteen days after the election at which he was a candidate. Any candidate who shall fail to file such statement shall be fined twenty-five dollars ($25.00) for every day on which he was in default, unless excused by the court. [1911, ch. 129.]

§ 8. ACTUAL CONTRIBUTORS' NAMES.] No person shall make a payment of his own money or of another person's money to any other person in connection with a nomination or election in any other name than that of the person who in truth supplies such money; nor shall any person knowingly receive such payment or enter or cause the same to be entered in his accounts or record in any other name than that of the person by whom it was actually furnished. [1911, ch. 129.1

§ 9. PRE-ELECTION PROMISES OF APPOINTMENTS.] No person shall, in order to aid or promote his nomination or election, directly or indirectly promise to appoint another person or to secure or aid in securing the appointment, nomination or election of another person to any public or private position or employment, or to any position of honor, trust or emolument. [1911, ch. 129.]

§ 10. CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS BY CANDIDATES. SOLICITATION THEREOF.] No person shall demand, solicit, ask or invite

§ 10. CHARITABLE CONTRIBUTIONS BY CANDIDATES OR OFFICEHOLDERS, AND SOLICITATION THEREOF.] No person shall demand, solicit, ask or invite any payment or contribution for any religious, charitable or other such cause from any person who seeks to be, or has been, nominated to any office, and no such candidate shall make any such payment or contribution, or promise or agree to make the same, if it shall be demanded or asked during the time he is a candidate for nomination or election. No payment or contribution for any purpose shall be made a condition precedent to the putting of a name on any caucus or convention ballot or nominating paper or petition, or the performance of any duty imposed by law on a political committee.

Provided, however, that this Section shall not be construed as prohibiting any candidate for office from making contributions for a religious or charitable purpose to any organization or purpose to which he has theretofore ordinarily or customarily contributed; and no person shall be deemed prohibited at any time from contributing to any church organization or association of which he is actually a member.

Provided, further, this Section shall not be construed as making it unlawful for a candidate for office to make contribution to the central committees of the political party with which he is affiliated, but any such contribution so made shall be deemed a part of the expenditure limited in Section 6 of this Act. [1913, Chap. 15.]

any payment or contribution for any religious, political, charitable or other such cause from a person who seeks to be or has been nominated or elected to any office; and no such candidate or elected person shall make any such payment or contribution if it shall be demanded or asked during the time he is a candidate for nomination or election or an incumbent of any office. No payment or contribution for any purpose shall be made a condition precedent to the putting of a name on any caucus or convention ballot or nominating paper or position, or the performance of any duty imposed by law on a political committee. [1911, ch. 129.]

§ 11. CAMPAIGN CONTRIBUTIONS BY CORPORATIONS PROHIBITED.] No corporation, trustee or officer thereof as such, shall pay or contribute in order to aid, promote or prevent the nomination or election of any person, or in order to aid or promote the interest, success or defeat of any person or any political party or organization. And no person shall solicit or receive such payment from any corporation. [1911, ch. 129.]

$12. TREATING] Any person or candidate who shall, either by himself or by any other person, either before or after election, or while such person or candidate is seeking a nomination or election, directly or indirectly, give or provide, or pay, wholly or in part, the expense of giving or providing any drink or intoxicating liquors to or for any person for the purpose or with the intent or hope to influence that person or any other person to give or refrain from giving his vote at such election to or for any candidate or political party ticket or measure before the people, or on account of such person or any other person having voted or refrained from voting for any candidate or the candidates of any political party or organization or measure before the people, or being about to vote or refrain from voting at such election, shall be guilty of treating. Every elector who accepts or takes any such drink or intoxicating liquors shall also be guilty of treating, and such acceptance shall be ground of challenge to his vote and of rejecting his vote on a contest. [1911, ch. 129.]

§ 13. PENALTY.] Any person shall be guilty of corrupt practice within the meaning of this act if he expends any money for election purposes contrary to the provisions of this statute, or if he is guilty of treating, undue influence, personation, or the giving or promising to give any money or valuable thing to an elector with the intent to induce him to vote or to refrain from voting for any candidate for public office. [1911, ch. 129.]

§ 14. EXPENSE OF VOTING. TRANSPORTATION PROHIBITED.] It shall be unlawful for any person to pay another for any loss or damage due to attendance at the polls, or in registering or for the expense of transportation to or from the polls. No person shall pay for personal services to be performed on the day of a caucus, primary convention or any election for any purpose connected therewith, tending in any way, directly or indirectly, to affect the result thereof, except for the hiring of persons whose sole duty is to act as challengers and watch the count of official ballots. No person shall buy, sell, give or provide any political badge, button or any insignia to be worn at or about the polls on the day of an election, and no such political badge, button or insignia shall be worn at or about the polls on any election day. [1911, ch. 129.

§ 15. POLITICAL ADVERTISING LABELED PAID.] No publisher of a newspaper or other periodical shall insert either in its advertising or reading columns or any paid matter which is designed or tends to aid, injure or defeat any candidate or political party or organization or measure before the people, unless it is stated therein that it is a paid advertisement. No person shall pay the owner, editor, publisher or agent of any newspaper or other periodical to induce him to editorially advocate or oppose any candidate for nomination or election, and no such owner, editor, publisher or agent shall accept such payment. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this section shall be punished as for a corrupt practice. [1911, ch. 129.]

§ 16. ELECTIONEERING ON ELECTION DAY.] It shall be unlawful for any person at any place on the day of any election to ask, solicit or in any manner try to induce or pursuade any voter on such election day to vote or refrain from voting for any candidate. or the candidates or ticket of any political party or organization, or any measure submitted to the people, and upon conviction thereof, he shall be punished by a fine of not less than five dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars for the first offense, and for the second and each subsequent offense occurring on the same or different election days he shall be punished by a fine as aforesaid, or by imprisonment in the county jail not less than five nor more than thirty days, or both such fine and imprisonment. [1911, ch. 129.]

§ 17. FAILURE TO FILE STATEMENT. NAME OMITTED FROM BALLOT. The name of a candidate chosen at a primary nominating election or otherwise, shall not be printed on the official ballot for the ensuing election unless there has been filed by or on behalf of said candidate the statements of accounts

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