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California Statutes § 18622 Unlawful purchase or offer to buy referendum, initiative, or recall petition

⤴ Up to Article 3: Improper Payments To Prevent Petition Circulation And Filing

Statute Text

Every person who offers to buy or does buy from a circulator any referendum, initiative, or recall petition on which one or more persons have affixed their signatures is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year, or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or both. This section is not intended to prohibit compensation of a circulator, for his or her services, by a proponent of the petition or his or her agent.

History

Enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch. 920, Sec. 2.

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