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<section article="gel" article_name="Election Law" number="13-602" title_number="13" title_name="Campaign Finance" subtitle_number="6" subtitle_name="Prohibited Acts and Penalties">
  <level label="a">
    <level label="1">
      <text>A person may not directly or indirectly give, offer, or promise money, aid, a gift, an advantage, a preferment, an emolument, or any other valuable thing to another person for the purpose of inducing or procuring that person to vote or refrain from voting for or against:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>an individual, question, or measure at an election or political convention; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>the election of an officer by the General Assembly.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A person may not directly or indirectly receive, accept, request, or solicit money, aid, a gift, an advantage, a preferment, an emolument, or any other valuable thing from another person for the purpose of inducing or procuring a third person to vote or refrain from voting for or against an individual, question, or measure at an election or political convention.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>A person may not vote or refrain from voting for or against an individual, question, or measure at an election or a political convention, in consideration of money, aid, a gift, an advantage, a preferment, an emolument, or any other valuable thing paid, received, accepted, or promised to the advantage of that person or of another person.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <level label="i">
        <text>A person, to defray the costs of a campaign finance entity, may not directly or indirectly pay, give, or promise money or any other valuable thing to any person other than a campaign finance entity.</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>Subparagraph (i) of this paragraph does not apply to:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>dues regularly paid for membership in a political club if all of the money that is spent by that political club in connection with any campaign finance activity is paid through a treasurer as provided in this title;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>an individual volunteering the individual’s time or personal vehicle in accordance with § 13–232 of this title;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>an employer’s accumulation of employee contributions in accordance with § 13–242 of this title; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="4">
          <text>advertising costs or other expenses incident to the expression of personal views in accordance with § 13–102 of this title.</text>
        </level>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>A person may not directly or indirectly pay or promise to pay a campaign finance entity in a name other than the person’s name.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>A responsible officer of a campaign finance entity may not knowingly receive a payment or promise of payment and enter it or cause it to be entered in an account book in a name that the responsible officer knows is not the name of the person that made the payment or the promise to pay.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="7">
      <text>An employer who pays employees in envelopes may not mark on or enclose in the envelopes a political motto, device, or argument that contains express or implied threats intended to influence the political opinions or actions of those employees.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="8">
      <text>During the 90 days before an election, an employer may not exhibit in the employer’s workplace:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>a threat, a notice, or information that, on the election or defeat of a particular ticket or candidate:</text>
        <level label="1">
          <text>work will cease, wholly or partly;</text>
        </level>
        <level label="2">
          <text>the workplace will close; or</text>
        </level>
        <level label="3">
          <text>employees’ wages will be reduced; or</text>
        </level>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>any other threat, expressed or implied, intended to influence the political opinions or actions of the employer’s employees.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="9">
      <text>A person may not:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>publish or distribute, or cause to be published or distributed, campaign material that violates § 13–401 of this title; or</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>publish, distribute, or disseminate, or cause to be published, distributed, or disseminated, campaign material that violates § 13–401.1 of this title.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="10">
      <text>A candidate may not make a payment, contribution, or expenditure, or incur a liability to pay, contribute, or expend, from the candidate’s personal funds any money or valuable thing in a manner not authorized by § 13–230 of this title.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="11">
      <text>An individual may not sign the name of any other individual on any form or other document under this title, without the authority of the individual whose name is signed.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>A person who violates this section is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction is:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>subject to a fine not exceeding $1,000 or imprisonment not exceeding 1 year or both; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>ineligible to hold any public or party office for 4 years after the date of the offense.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The State Prosecutor may prosecute, in any jurisdiction of the State, a person that the State Prosecutor believes to be guilty of a willful violation of this section.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>A State’s Attorney may prosecute a person that the State’s Attorney believes to be guilty of a willful violation of this section in the county in which the State’s Attorney serves.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
