2016 South Dakota Codified Laws
Title 12 - ELECTIONS
Chapter 27 - Campaign Finance Requirements
§ 12-27-8 Limit on contributions to candidates for legislative or county office--Violation as misdemeanor.
12-27-8. Limit on contributions to candidates for legislative or county office--Violation as misdemeanor. No candidate for legislative or county office or the candidate's campaign committee may accept contributions from a person or political committee which in the aggregate from one source exceeds seven hundred and fifty dollars during any calendar year, or contributions from a political party which in the aggregate from one source exceeds five thousand dollars during any calendar year.
No candidate for legislative or county office may accept a contribution from a ballot question committee.
Funds received by a candidate or candidate's campaign committee by way of redemption of a democracy credit are considered a contribution from the person who assigned the democracy credit to the candidate.
The limitation on any contribution in this section does not apply to any contribution by the candidate to the candidate's campaign committee. A violation of this section is a Class 1 misdemeanor.
Source: SL 2007, ch 80, § 8; Initiated Measure 22, § 6, eff. Nov. 16, 2016.
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