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<section article="gel" article_name="Election Law" number="13-245" title_number="13" title_name="Campaign Finance" subtitle_number="2" subtitle_name="Campaign Finance Organization and Activity">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In this section, “walk-around services” means the following activities if performed for money while the polls are open:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>distributing campaign material;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>stationing a person, including oneself, or an object in the path of a voter;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>electioneering or canvassing as described in § 16-206 of this article;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>communicating in any other manner a voting preference or choice; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>performing any other service as a poll worker or distributor of sample ballots.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>This section does not apply to:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>meals, beverages, and refreshments served to campaign workers;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>salaries of regularly employed personnel in campaign headquarters;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>media advertising, including newspaper, radio, television, billboard, or aerial advertising;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>rent and regular office expenses; or</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>the cost of telephoning voters or transporting voters to and from polling places.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A campaign finance entity, or a person acting on its behalf, may not at any time, directly or indirectly, pay or incur an obligation to pay, and a person may not, directly or indirectly, receive any money or thing of value, for a political endorsement.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <level label="i">
        <text>A campaign finance entity, or a person acting on its behalf, that pays any person for walk-around services shall make all payments by check from a campaign account designated under § 13-220(a) of this subtitle.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>All payments made under subparagraph (i) of this paragraph shall be reported in accordance with § 13-304 of this title.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
