1998 Minnesota Statutes

     10A.27 Additional limitations. 

    Subdivision 1.    Contribution limits.  Except as 
 provided in subdivision 2, no candidate shall permit the 
 candidate's principal campaign committee to accept aggregate 
 contributions made or delivered by any individual, political 
 committee, or political fund in excess of the following: 

    (a) to candidates for governor and lieutenant governor 
 running together, $2,000 in an election year for the office 
 sought and $500 in other years; 

    (b) to a candidate for attorney general, $1,000 in an 
 election year for the office sought and $200 in other years; 

    (c) to a candidate for the office of secretary of state, 
 state treasurer or state auditor, $500 in an election year for 
 the office sought and $100 in other years; 

    (d) to a candidate for state senator, $500 in an election 
 year for the office sought and $100 in other years; and 

    (e) to a candidate for state representative, $500 in an 
 election year for the office sought and $100 in the other year. 

    The following deliveries are not subject to the bundling 
 limitation in this subdivision: 

    (1) delivery of contributions collected by a member of the 
 candidate's principal campaign committee, such as a block worker 
 or a volunteer who hosts a fund raising event, to the 
 committee's treasurer; and 

    (2) a delivery made by an individual on behalf of the 
 individual's spouse.  

    Subd. 2.    Contributions from political party units.  
 No candidate shall permit the candidate's principal campaign 
 committee to accept contributions from any political party units 
 in aggregate in excess of ten times the amount that may be 
 contributed to that candidate as set forth in subdivision 1. 

    Subd. 3.  Repealed, 1978 c 463 s 109 

    Subd. 4.    Definition of political party.  For the 
 purposes of this section, a political party means the aggregate 
 of the party organization within each house of the legislature, 
 the state party organization, and the party organization within 
 congressional districts, counties, legislative districts, 
 municipalities, and precincts. 

    Subd. 5.    Independent expenditures.  Nothing in this 
 section shall be construed as limiting independent expenditures 
 on behalf of a candidate. 

    Subd. 6. Repealed, 1993 c 318 art 2 s 51 

    Subd. 7.    Contributions and expenditures before February 
 28, 1978.  Contributions and approved expenditures made prior 
 to February 28, 1978 which are in excess of the limits imposed 
 by this section shall not be in violation of this section but 
 shall be disclosed as required by this chapter. 

    Subd. 8.    Loans.  No candidate shall permit the 
 candidate's principal campaign committee to accept a loan from 
 other than a financial institution for an amount in excess of 
 the contribution limits imposed by this section.  No candidate 
 shall permit the candidate's principal campaign committee to 
 accept any loan from a financial institution for which that 
 financial institution may hold any endorser of that loan liable 
 to pay any amount in excess of the amount that the endorser may 
 contribute to that candidate. 

    Subd. 9.    Transfers among committees; contributions from 
 certain candidates.  (a) A candidate or the treasurer of a 
 candidate's principal campaign committee shall not accept a 
 transfer or contribution from another candidate's principal 
 campaign committee or from any other committee bearing the 
 contributing candidate's name or title or otherwise authorized 
 by the contributing candidate, unless the contributing 
 candidate's principal campaign committee is being dissolved.  A 
 candidate's principal campaign committee shall not make a 
 transfer or contribution to another candidate's principal 
 campaign committee, except when the contributing committee is 
 being dissolved.  

    (b) A candidate's principal campaign committee shall not 
 accept a transfer or contribution from, or make a transfer or 
 contribution to, a committee associated with a person who seeks 
 nomination or election to the office of President, Senator, or 
 Representative in Congress of the United States. 

    (c) A candidate or the treasurer of a candidate's principal 
 campaign committee shall not accept a contribution from a 
 candidate for political subdivision office, unless the 
 contribution is from the personal funds of the candidate for 
 political subdivision office.  A candidate or the treasurer of a 
 candidate's principal campaign committee shall not make a 
 contribution from the principal campaign committee to a 
 candidate for political subdivision office. 

    Subd. 10.    Prohibited contributions.  A candidate who 
 accepts a public subsidy may not contribute to the candidate's 
 own campaign more than ten times the candidate's election year 
 contribution limit under subdivision 1. 

    Subd. 11.    Contributions from certain types of 
 contributors.  A candidate shall not permit the candidate's 
 principal campaign committee to accept a contribution from a 
 political committee other than a political party unit as defined 
 in section 10A.275, a political fund, a lobbyist, or a large 
 giver, if the contribution will cause the aggregate 
 contributions from those types of contributors to exceed an 
 amount equal to 20 percent of the expenditure limits for the 
 office sought by the candidate.  For purposes of this 
 subdivision, "large giver" means an individual, other than the 
 candidate, who contributes an amount that is more than $100 and 
 more than one-half the amount an individual may contribute. 

    Subd. 12.    Contributions to other political committees 
 or funds.  The treasurer of a political committee or political 
 fund, other than a candidate's principal campaign committee or a 
 political party unit as defined in section 10A.275, shall not 
 permit the political committee or political fund to accept 
 aggregate contributions from an individual, political committee, 
 or political fund in an amount more than $100 a year. 

    HIST: 1974 c 470 s 27; 1976 c 307 s 24; 1978 c 463 s 76-82; 
 1978 c 793 s 38; 1986 c 444; 1990 c 608 art 3 s 17,18; 1991 c 
 349 s 17; 1993 c 318 art 2 s 26-31; 1Sp1993 c 3 s 2; 1996 c 305 
 art 1 s 1