Title 169, CAMPAIGN FINANCING AND ADVERTISING

Sec. 55. (1) A connected organization may make an expenditure for the establishment or administration of, and solicitation, collection, or transfer of contributions to, a separate segregated fund to be used for political purposes. A connected organization may also pay actual cost…

Sec. 56. A county, city, township, village, or school district may not adopt an ordinance or resolution that is more restrictive than the provisions contained in this act.

Sec. 57. (1) A public body or a person acting for a public body shall not use or authorize the use of funds, personnel, office space, computer hardware or software, property, stationery, postage, vehicles, equipment, supplies, or other public resources to make a contribution or e…

Sec. 59. (1) If a person, committee, or other entity creates, originally publishes, or originally distributes a qualified political advertisement, the qualified political advertisement must include, in a clear and conspicuous manner, a statement that meets all of the following re…

Sec. 61. (1) The state campaign fund is hereby created. The state treasurer shall administer the state campaign fund in accordance with this act. (2) An individual whose tax liability under the income tax act of 1967, 1967 PA 281, MCL 206.1 to 206.532, for a taxable year is $3.00…

Sec. 62. (1) Only a candidate who established a single candidate committee which submitted a statement of organization according to procedures established by law may receive moneys under this act. Moneys received by a candidate pursuant to this act shall be spent only through the…

Sec. 63. (1) The secretary of state shall receive and keep a record of each candidate's certified statements of qualifying contributions. A statement shall include in alphabetical order the full name and street address of each person from whom a qualifying contribution is receive…

Sec. 64. (1) A candidate in a primary election may obtain funds from the state campaign fund in an amount equal to $2.00 for each $1.00 of qualifying contribution if the candidate certifies to the secretary of state both of the following: (a) That the candidate committee of the c…

Sec. 65. (1) A major political party nominee is entitled to an amount from the state campaign fund of not more than $1,125,000.00 for a general election. A candidate, subject to law, may raise the remaining amount of the permissible expenditure limit in private contributions. An …

Sec. 66. (1) A candidate may only apply the funds received under this act from the state campaign fund against qualified campaign expenditures. (2) As used in this section, "qualified campaign expenditure" means an expenditure for services, materials, facilities, or other things …

Sec. 67. (1) Expenditures made by a candidate committee to further the nomination or election of a candidate may not exceed $2,000,000.00 in the aggregate for 1 election. An expenditure by a candidate committee for an incidental expense under section 21a is not considered an expe…

Sec. 68. (1) A debt for goods, services, materials, facilities, or anything of value in furtherance of, or in opposition to, the nomination for, or election to, office of a candidate shall not be incurred by a person which, when paid, will cause the expenditures of that candidate…

Sec. 69. (1) Except as provided in subsection (6) or (10) and subject to section 46, a person other than an independent committee or a political party committee shall not make contributions to a candidate committee of a candidate that are more than $6,800.00 in value for an elect…

Sec. 70. A contribution or expenditure which is controlled by, or made at the direction of, another person, including a parent organization, subsidiary, division, committee, department, branch, or local unit of a person, shall be reported by the person making the expenditure or c…

Sec. 71. (1) A contribution shall not be made by a person to another person with the agreement or arrangement that the person receiving the contribution will then transfer that contribution to a particular candidate committee. (2) A candidate committee shall not make a contributi…

Sec. 81. (1) Sections 901 to 929 of Act No. 116 of the Public Acts of 1954, as amended, being sections 168.901 to 168.929 of the Compiled Laws of 1970, are repealed. (2) Subsection (1) shall not take effect until June 1, 1977.

Sec. 82. (1) The penalty provisions of this act shall not apply to an act or omission occurring before December 1, 1977 except that a late filing fee shall not be due or payable for an act or omission occurring before May 16, 1978 provided the act or omission is corrected before …