2019 US Virgin Islands Code
Title 18 - Elections
Chapter 29 - Disclosure and Limitations on Campaign Contributions
§ 907. Limitations on contributions

Universal Citation: V.I. Code tit. 18, § 907 (2019)
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  • (a) No person shall make contributions:

    • (1) to any candidate or his authorized political committee with respect to any election which, in the aggregate, exceed $1,000 per election; or

    • (2) to any multicandidate political committee, for any election, which exceeds an amount equal to the number of candidates supported by such committee when multiplied by $1,000.

  • (b) No multicandidate political committee shall make contributions to any candidate or his authorized political committee which, in the aggregate, exceed $1,000 per election.

  • (c) All contributions shall be deemed contributions for the immediate next election for the purpose of determining the limitations of this section; however surplus funds carried over by a candidate or political committee from one election to the next shall not be held to be a limitation on the contributions which may be made for such election.

  • (d) The limitations on contributions contained in this section do not apply to transfers between and among authorized political committees of the same candidate, or to transfers from a candidate to his authorized political committee, or to contributions by a candidate of his personal funds to his own campaign.

  • (e) For the purpose of the limitations provided by this section, all contributions made by political committees established, financed, maintained, or controlled by any corporation, labor organization, or any other person, including any parent, subsidiary, branch, division, department, or local unit of such corporation, labor organization, or other person, or by any group of such persons, shall be considered to have been made by a single political committee. In any case in which a corporation and any of its subsidiaries, branches, divisions, departments, or local units, or a labor organization and any of its subsidiaries, branches, divisions, departments, or local units establish, finance, maintain, or control more than one separate segregated fund, all such separate segregated funds shall be treated as a single fund for the purposes of the limitations on contributions provided by this section.

  • (f) Nothing in this section shall be interpreted to prohibit or limit the transfer of funds from one political committee to another when such transfer represents the proportional share of funds due the receiving committee from a joint fund-raising effort in which such committee participated.

  • (g) For the purposes of this section:

    • (1) contributions to a candidate made to any political committee authorized by such candidate to accept contributions on his behalf shall be considered to be contributions made to such candidate;

    • (2) expenditures made by any person in cooperation, consultation, or concert with, or at the request or suggestion of, a candidate or his authorized political committees or agents, shall be considered to be a contribution to such candidate;

    • (3) the financing by any person of the dissemination, distribution, or republication, in whole or in part, of any broadcast or any written, graphic, or other form of campaign materials prepared by the candidate, or his authorized political committees or agents, shall be considered to be a contribution to such candidate for the purposes of this section;

    • (4) contributions made to or for the benefit of any candidate for Lieutenant Governor shall be considered a contribution to the candidate for Governor with whom the candidate for Lieutenant Governor is running; provided, however, that in any primary election, contributions to a candidate for Lieutenant Governor who has not yet aligned with a candidate for Governor shall be deemed contributions solely to the candidate for Lieutenant Governor;

    • (5) contributions made by a person, either directly or indirectly, on behalf of a particular candidate, including contributions which are in any way earmarked or otherwise directed through an intermediary or conduit to such candidate, shall be treated as contributions from such person to such candidate. The intermediary or conduit shall report the original source and the intended recipient of such contributions to the Supervisor and to the intended recipient.

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