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Elections Code - ELEC
DIVISION 18 - PENAL PROVISIONS
CHAPTER 3 - Nomination of Candidates
Section 18205.
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CA Elec Code § 18205 (2025)
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18205. A person shall not directly or through any other person advance, pay, solicit, or receive or cause to be advanced, paid, solicited, or received, any money or other valuable consideration to or for the use of any person in order to induce a person not to become or to withdraw as a candidate for public office. Violation of this section shall be punishable by imprisonment pursuant to subdivision (h) of Section 1170 of the Penal Code for 16 months or two or three years.
(Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 15, Sec. 66. (AB 109) Effective April 4, 2011. Operative October 1, 2011, by Sec. 636 of Ch. 15, as amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 39, Sec. 68.)
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