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<section article="gel" article_name="Election Law" number="13-241" title_number="13" title_name="Campaign Finance" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Campaign Finance Organization and Activity">
  <level label="a">
    <text>An employer may establish a program for collecting from employees by means of payroll deductions voluntary contributions to one or more campaign finance entities selected by the employer.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>Periodic contributions collected by payroll deductions under a program established under subsection (a) of this section shall be combined and accumulated in a segregated escrow account maintained solely for that purpose.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>An employer shall keep detailed and accurate records of each payroll deduction made under subsection (a) of this section, including:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the name and address of the contributor;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the date on which the contribution is withheld;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the amount of the contribution; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>the disposition of the contribution.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>Within 3 months after withholding a contribution under this section, the employer shall transmit the contribution to the appropriate campaign finance entity, together with the information recorded under subsection (c)(1), (2), and (3) of this section.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="e">
    <text>In soliciting an employee to make a contribution to a campaign finance entity by payroll deduction, an employer shall inform the employee of:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>the political purposes of the campaign finance entity; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the employee’s right to refuse to contribute to the campaign finance entity without reprisal.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="f">
    <text>An employer may not receive or use money or anything of value under this section if it is obtained:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>by actual or threatened:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>physical force;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>job discrimination; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>financial reprisal; or</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>as:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a result of a commercial transaction; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>dues, fees, or other assessment required as a condition of membership in a labor organization or employment.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
