2010 Tennessee Code
Title 2 - Elections
Chapter 10 - Campaign Finances
Part 3 - Campaign Contributions Limits
2-10-302 - Contribution limits.

2-10-302. Contribution limits.

(a)  No person shall make contributions to any candidate with respect to any election which, in the aggregate, exceed:

     (1)  For an office elected by statewide election, two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500); or

     (2)  For any other state or local public office, one thousand dollars ($1,000).

(b)  No multicandidate political campaign committee shall make contributions to any candidate with respect to any election which, in the aggregate, exceed:

     (1)  For an office elected by statewide election or the senate, seven thousand five hundred dollars ($7,500); and

     (2)  For any other state or local public office, five thousand dollars ($5,000).

(c)  With respect to contributions from multicandidate political campaign committees for each election:

     (1)  No candidate for an office elected by statewide election shall accept in the aggregate more than fifty percent (50%) of the candidate's total contributions from multicandidate political campaign committees; and

     (2)  No candidate for any other state or local public office shall accept in the aggregate more than seventy-five thousand dollars ($75,000) from multicandidate political campaign committees.

In determining the aggregate limits established by this subsection (c), contributions made to a candidate by a committee controlled by a political party on the national, state, or local level or by a caucus of such political party established by members of either house of the general assembly are not included.

[Acts 1995, ch. 531, § 1; 2003, ch. 416, § 1.]