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<section article="gel" article_name="Election Law" number="13-227" title_number="13" title_name="Campaign Finance" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Campaign Finance Organization and Activity">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this section, a “campaign finance entity” includes a nonfederal out–of–state political committee.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The limits on transfers set forth in subsection (c) of this section do not apply to a transfer:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>by a campaign finance entity to a ballot issue committee;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>by the authorized candidate campaign committee of a member of a slate to a slate of which the candidate is a member;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>by the authorized candidate campaign committees of the candidates that a legislative party caucus committee seeks to elect to the legislative party caucus committee; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>between or among:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>political committees that are State or local central committees of the same political party;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>a slate and the authorized candidate campaign committees of its members, if the only members of the slate are a candidate for Governor and a candidate for Lieutenant Governor who are running on the same ticket; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>the authorized candidate campaign committee of a candidate.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3) of this subsection, during an election cycle, a campaign finance entity may not directly or indirectly make transfers in a cumulative amount of more than $6,000 to any one other campaign finance entity.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>During an election cycle, a slate may not make transfers directly or indirectly to the authorized candidate campaign committee of any single member of the slate in a cumulative amount of more than $24,000.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>During an election cycle, a legislative party caucus committee may not make transfers directly to the authorized candidate campaign committee of a candidate that the legislative party caucus committee seeks to elect in a cumulative amount of more than $24,000.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>All affiliated campaign finance entities are treated as a single entity in determining:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>the amount of transfers made by a campaign finance entity; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the amount of transfers received by a campaign finance entity.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>Campaign finance entities are deemed to be affiliated if they:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>are organized and operated in coordination and cooperation with each other; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>otherwise conduct their operations and make their decisions relating to transfers and other contributions under the control of the same individual or entity.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>The limit on transfers to the campaign finance entities of a candidate prescribed in subsection (c) of this section applies regardless of the number of offices sought by the candidate.</text>
  </level>
</section>
