Title 9 — Title 9: Elections

Sec. 9-601c. “Independent expenditure” defined. (a) As used in this chapter and chapter 157, the term “independent expenditure” means an expenditure, as defined in section 9-601b, that is made without the consent, coordination, or consultation of, a candidate or agent of the cand…

Sec. 9-601d. Making of independent expenditures. Filing of reports. Exceptions. (a) Any person, as defined in section 9-601, may, unless otherwise restricted or prohibited by law, including, but not limited to, any provision of this chapter or chapter 157, make unlimited independ…

Sec. 9-601e. Impermissible coordinated expenditure. Liability for penalty. If the State Elections Enforcement Commission finds that an expenditure, as defined in section 9-601b, is coordinated with a candidate committee or candidate or an agent of the candidate, in a manner not p…

Sec. 9-602. (Formerly Sec. 9-333d). Designation of treasurer and depository institution. Certification. Persons authorized to receive contributions. Duties of treasurer. Personal jurisdiction of State Elections Enforcement Commission over nonresidents. (a) Except with respect to …

Sec. 9-603. (Formerly Sec. 9-333e). Filing of statements and certification. Transfer of administration of campaign finance reporting to State Elections Enforcement Commission. (a) Statements filed by party committees, political committees formed to aid or promote the success or d…

Sec. 9-604. (Formerly Sec. 9-333f). Formation of committee by candidate. Exceptions. Exploratory committees. Justice of the peace slate candidates. (a) Each candidate for a particular public office or the position of town committee member shall form a single candidate committee f…

Sec. 9-605. (Formerly Sec. 9-333g). Political committees; designation of treasurer; registration statement, time for filing, contents of statement. Exception. Limits on establishment of political committees. Legislative caucus committees. Legislative leadership committees. (a) Th…

Sec. 9-606. (Formerly Sec. 9-333h). Duties and qualifications of treasurers. Appointment and duties of solicitors. (a) The treasurer of each committee shall be responsible for (1) depositing, receiving and reporting all contributions and other funds in the manner specified in sec…

Sec. 9-606a. Terms “treasurer” and “deputy treasurer” substituted for “campaign treasurer” and “deputy campaign treasurer”. (a)(1) Wherever the term “campaign treasurer” is used in the following sections of the general statutes, the term “treasurer” shall be substituted in lieu t…

Sec. 9-607. (Formerly Sec. 9-333i). Making of expenditures. (a) Authorization by treasurer. No financial obligation shall be incurred by a committee unless authorized by the treasurer, except that certain expenditures of a candidate's personal funds may be reimbursed as provided …

Sec. 9-608. (Formerly Sec. 9-333j). Statements to be filed by treasurers. Treatment of surplus or deficit. (a) Filing dates. (1) Each treasurer of a committee, other than a state central committee, shall file a statement, sworn under penalty of false statement with the proper aut…

Sec. 9-609. (Formerly Sec. 9-333k). Party committees; designation as treasurer. Limitation on multiple committees. Fund-raising events and testimonial affairs. (a) The chairman of each party committee shall designate a treasurer and may designate a deputy treasurer, or in the cas…

Sec. 9-610. (Formerly Sec. 9-333l). Expense sharing by committees. Candidate's expenditures. Use of public funds by incumbent or for promotional campaign or advertisement. Restrictions on lobbyist contributions and solicitations. (a) Any provision of this chapter to the contrary …

Sec. 9-611. (Formerly Sec. 9-333m). Limits on contributions made by individuals to candidate committees, exploratory committees. When contributions by personal check or credit card required. Contributions by individuals less than eighteen years of age. (a) No individual shall mak…

Sec. 9-612. (Formerly Sec. 9-333n). Other contributions by individuals. Principals of investment services firms, state contractors, principals of state contractors, prospective state contractors or principals of prospective state contractors. Lists. Subcontracts study. State offi…

Sec. 9-613. (Formerly Sec. 9-333o). Business entities. (a) Contributions or expenditures for candidate or party prohibited. No business entity shall make any contributions or expenditures to, or for the benefit of, any candidate's campaign for election to any public office or pos…

Sec. 9-614. (Formerly Sec. 9-333p). Organizations. (a) Formation of political committee. Method of funding. An organization may make contributions or expenditures, other than those made to promote the success or defeat of a referendum question, only by first forming its own polit…

Sec. 9-615. (Formerly Sec. 9-333q). Limits on contributions made by political committees established by organizations. (a) No political committee established by an organization shall make a contribution or contributions to, or for the benefit of, any candidate's campaign for nomi…

Sec. 9-616. (Formerly Sec. 9-333r). Contributions made or received by candidate committees. (a) A candidate committee shall not make contributions to, or for the benefit of, (1) a party committee, (2) a political committee, (3) a committee of a candidate for federal or out-of-sta…

Sec. 9-617. (Formerly Sec. 9-333s). Contributions made or received by party committees. (a) A party committee may make unlimited contributions to, or for the benefit of, any of the following: (1) Another party committee; (2) a national committee of a political party; or (3) a com…

Sec. 9-618. (Formerly Sec. 9-333t). Contributions made or received by political committees organized for ongoing political activities. (a) A political committee organized for ongoing political activities may make unlimited contributions to, or for the benefit of, any national com…

Sec. 9-619. (Formerly Sec. 9-333u). Contributions made or received by committees established for a single primary or election. (a) No political committee established for a single primary or election shall make contributions to a national committee, or a committee of a candidate f…

Sec. 9-620. (Formerly Sec. 9-333v). Contributions made or received by committees formed to promote success or defeat of referendum questions. (a) A political committee formed solely to aid or promote the success or defeat of a referendum question shall not make contributions to, …

Sec. 9-621. (Formerly Sec. 9-333w). Political advertising. (a) No individual shall make or incur any expenditure with the consent of, in coordination with or in consultation with any candidate, candidate committee or candidate's agent, no group of two or more individuals acting t…

Sec. 9-622. (Formerly Sec. 9-333x). Illegal practices. The following persons shall be guilty of illegal practices and shall be punished in accordance with the provisions of section 9-623: (1) Any person who, directly or indirectly, individually or by another person, gives or offe…

Sec. 9-623. (Formerly Sec. 9-333y). Penalties. (a) Any person who knowingly and wilfully violates any provision of this chapter shall be guilty of a class D felony. The Secretary of the State or the town clerk shall notify the State Elections Enforcement Commission of any such vi…

Sec. 9-624. (Formerly Sec. 9-346a). Preparation and distribution of forms; town clerk's fee. (a) The State Elections Enforcement Commission shall prepare and print the forms required for compliance with this chapter and distribute them upon request to candidates and treasurers. (…

Sec. 9-625. (Formerly Sec. 9-346b). Powers of state referees and judges. Preservation of testimony. Witnesses. Expenses of inquiry. (a) Any state referee or any judge of the Superior Court may, upon the written request of any state's attorney or any assistant state's attorney, co…

Secs. 9-626 to 9-674. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 9-675. (Formerly Sec. 9-348ee). Electronic submission of campaign finance disclosure statements required. Waiver for good cause. (a) The State Elections Enforcement Commission shall (1) create a web-based program for the preparation and electronic submission of financial dis…

Sec. 9-676. (Formerly Sec. 9-348ff). Conversion of data from paper format to electronic format. The State Elections Enforcement Commission shall, within available appropriations, convert all data in statements required by section 9-608 that are filed in paper format on and after …

Sec. 9-677. (Formerly Sec. 9-348gg). Public access to computerized data from campaign finance statements. The State Elections Enforcement Commission shall make all computerized data from statements required by section 9-608 available to the public through (1) computer terminals a…

Secs. 9-678 to 9-699. Reserved for future use.

Sec. 9-700. Definitions. As used in sections 9-700 to 9-716, inclusive: (1) “Commission” means the State Elections Enforcement Commission. (2) “Convention campaign” means, in the case of a major party candidate for Governor, the period beginning the day such candidate files the a…

Sec. 9-701. Citizens' Election Fund. There is established the “Citizens' Election Fund”, which shall be a separate, nonlapsing account within the General Fund. The fund may contain any moneys required by law to be deposited in the fund. Investment earnings credited to the assets …

Sec. 9-702. Citizens' Election Program established. Eligibility for grants. (a) There is established a Citizens' Election Program under which (1) the candidate committee of a major party candidate for nomination to the office of Governor in 2026, or thereafter, may receive a gran…

Sec. 9-703. Affidavit certifying candidate's intent to abide or not abide by expenditure limits. (a) Each candidate for nomination or election to the office of state senator or state representative in 2008, or thereafter, or the office of Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney G…

Sec. 9-704. Qualifying contributions. (a) The amount of qualifying contributions that the candidate committee of a candidate shall be required to receive in order to be eligible for grants from the Citizens' Election Fund shall be: (1) In the case of a candidate for nomination or…

Sec. 9-705. Grant for convention campaign for major party candidate for Governor; grants for primary and general election campaigns. Supplemental grants for petitioning and minor party candidates. (a)(1)(A) The qualified candidate committee of a major party candidate for the offi…

Sec. 9-706. Grant applications and payment. (a)(1)(A) A participating major party candidate for nomination to the office of Governor in 2026, or thereafter, may apply to the State Elections Enforcement Commission for a grant from the fund under the Citizens' Election Program for …

Sec. 9-707. Limit on deposits into depository account of a qualified candidate committee. Following the initial deposit of moneys from the Citizens' Election Fund into the depository account of a qualified candidate committee, no contribution, loan, amount of the candidate's own …

Sec. 9-708. Payment of primary or general election campaign grant to eligible qualified candidate committee. (a)(1) A qualified candidate committee of a major party candidate for the office of Governor that received moneys from the Citizens' Election Fund for a convention campaig…

Sec. 9-709. Joint campaigning by candidates for offices of Governor and Lieutenant Governor. (a) For purposes of this section, expenditures made to aid or promote the success of both a candidate for nomination or election to the office of Governor and a candidate for nomination o…

Sec. 9-710. Loans and personal funds for campaigns. Limits. (a) The candidate committee for a candidate who intends to participate in the Citizens' Election Program may borrow moneys on behalf of a campaign for a primary or a general election from one or more financial institutio…

Sec. 9-711. Excess expenditures: Penalties. (a) If an expenditure in excess of the applicable expenditure limit set forth in subsection (c) of section 9-702 is made or incurred by a qualified candidate committee that receives a grant from the Citizens' Election Fund pursuant to s…

Sec. 9-712. Supplemental statements. Declaration of excess expenditures statement. (a)(1) The treasurer of each candidate committee in a primary campaign or a general election campaign in which there is at least one participating candidate shall file weekly supplemental campaign …

Secs. 9-713 and 9-714. Excess expenditures: Payment of additional moneys to opposing participating candidates. Independent expenditures: Payment of additional matching moneys to participating candidates. Sections 9-713 and 9-714 are repealed, effective August 13, 2010. (Oct. 25 S…

Sec. 9-715. Voter registration lists for participating candidates. The Secretary of the State shall provide to each participating candidate a copy of the voter registration list for the state or the applicable district, which is generated from the state-wide centralized voter reg…

Sec. 9-716. *(See end of section for amended version of subsection (b) and effective date.) Report on status of Citizens' Election Fund. Determination of fund sufficiency. Reserve account. (a) Not later than June 1, 2007, and annually thereafter, the State Elections Enforcement C…

Sec. 9-717. Severability. (a) Each section, subsection, subdivision, subparagraph, clause, provision or portion of public act 05-5 of the October 25 special session* or any subsequent amendment to any such section, subsection, subdivision, subparagraph, clause, provision or porti…