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Louisiana Statutes § 18:1468 Contributions in return for endorsement; prohibition

⤴ Up to Chapter 10: Election Offenses

Statute Text

A. No person shall solicit or receive funds nor any thing of value from a candidate or political committee and no candidate or political committee or other person shall pay any funds or any thing of value to any person for the purpose of endorsing, supporting, opposing, or securing an endorsement, support of or opposition to any candidate. Nothing in this Section shall be construed to prohibit the payment by a candidate, political committee, or other person, of funds or any thing of value to a person in return for the conducting, by such person to whom the payment is made, of a social function which is in support of or in opposition to a candidate or political committee of D1 which otherwise seeks to influence an election.
B. The terms used in this Section shall be defined as in Chapter 11 of this Title.
C. Whoever violates the provisions of this Section shall be fined not more than one thousand dollars or be imprisoned, with or without hard labor, for not more than five years, or both.

Source

Added by Acts 1980, No. 786, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 1981; Acts 2010 , No. 797 , § 1 , eff. Jan. 1, 2011.

History

Added by Acts 1980, No. 786, §2, eff. 1/1/1981 ; Acts 2010 , No. 797 , § 1 , eff. 1/1/2011 .

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