(a)
"The traveling expenses of the candidate" as used in
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7 (Expenses not subject to expenditure limits), shall mean the reasonable and necessary expenses of transportation, food and lodging in connection with travel related to the candidacy of the candidate, and shall include expenses of the candidate and of members of the political campaign staff and immediate family of the candidate traveling with the candidate in the same or accompanying vehicles. The phrase does not include travel expenses of members of the candidate's staff when they are traveling not in the company of the candidate, nor does it include expenses of members of the media or others who are not members of the staff, whether or not those media members are accompanying the candidate.
(b)
All of the expenditures, including those excluded from the expenditure limitation contained in section 7 of the Act, must be disclosed in the preelection and postelection reports and all submissions for matching funds on behalf of the candidate.
(c)
If any individual, including a candidate, uses a government-owned or government-leased vehicle for transportation to aid or promote a campaign for nomination for election to the office of Governor, such use shall:
1.
Be reported as a travel expense pursuant to (b) above;
2.
Be valued for purposes of reports required to be filed under the Act and for purposes of the expenditure limit contained in the Act by the reasonable commercial value of the transportation services to the candidate pursuant to
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5; and
3.
Be reimbursed immediately from campaign funds to the appropriate government entity providing the conveyance or vehicle.
History
Amended by R.1984 d.561, effective
12/17/1984
.
See: 16 N.J.R. 2765(a), 16 N.J.R. 3485(b).
Amended by R.1992 d.458, effective
11/16/1992
.
See: 24 N.J.R. 3026(a), 24 N.J.R. 4274(a).
Added (c).
Amended by R.2010 d.062, effective
4/19/2010
.
See: 41 N.J.R. 4682(a), 42 N.J.R. 811(a).
Substituted "Act" for "act" ( N.J.S.A. 19:44A-7) throughout; and in the second paragraph of (b), deleted the designation "1" and deleted "1" following "Example".
Amended by 52 N.J.R. 2190(a), effective
12/21/2020