SF 960

1st Engrossment - 84th Legislature (2005 - 2006) Posted on 12/15/2009 12:00am

A bill for an act
relating to elections; fair campaign practices;
amending Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 211B.13,
subdivision 1.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:

Section 1.

Minnesota Statutes 2004, section 211B.13,
subdivision 1, is amended to read:

Subdivision 1.

Bribery, advancing money, and treating
prohibited.

A person who willfully, directly or indirectly,
advances, pays, gives, promises, or lends any money, food,
liquor, clothing, entertainment, or other thing of monetary
value, or who offers, promises, or endeavors to obtain any
money, position, appointment, employment, or other valuable
consideration, to or for a person, in order to induce a voter to
refrain from voting, or to vote in a particular way, at an
election, is guilty of a felony. This section does not prevent
a candidate from stating publicly preference for or support of
another candidate to be voted for at the same primary or
election. Refreshments of food or nonalcoholic beverages of
nominal value consumed on the premises at a private gathering or
public meeting new text begin or distributed at a public parade new text end are not
prohibited under this section.

Sec. 2. new text begin EFFECTIVE DATE.
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new text begin This act is effective the day following final enactment.
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