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2024 California Code
Government Code - GOV
TITLE 9 - POLITICAL REFORM
CHAPTER 2 - Definitions
Section 82031.
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CA Govt Code § 82031 (2024)
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82031. “Independent expenditure” means an expenditure made by any person, including a payment of public moneys by a state or local governmental agency, in connection with a communication which expressly advocates the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate or the qualification, passage or defeat of a clearly identified measure, or taken as a whole and in context, unambiguously urges a particular result in an election but which is not made to or at the behest of the affected candidate or committee.
(Amended by Stats. 2009, Ch. 363, Sec. 2. (AB 9) Effective January 1, 2010.)
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