SECTIONS 18620-18622 - California Statutes

ELECTIONS CODE

SECTION 18620-18622

18620. Every person who seeks, solicits, bargains for, or obtains
any money, thing of value, or advantage of or from any person, firm,
or corporation for the purpose or represented purpose of fraudulently
inducing, persuading, or seeking the proponent or proponents of any
initiative or referendum measure or recall petition to (a) abandon
the measure or petition, (b) fail, neglect, or refuse to file in the
office of the elections official or other officer designated by law,
within the time required by law, the initiative or referendum measure
or recall petition after securing the number of signatures required
to qualify the measure or petition, (c) stop the circulation of the
initiative or referendum measure or recall petition, or (d) perform
any act that will prevent or aid in preventing the initiative or
referendum measure or recall petition from qualifying as an
initiative or referendum measure, or the recall petition from
resulting in a recall election, is punishable by a fine not exceeding
five thousand dollars ($5,000), or by imprisonment in the state
prison 16 months or two or three years or in a county jail not
exceeding one year, or by both the fine and imprisonment.

18621. Any proponent of an initiative or referendum measure or
recall petition who seeks, solicits, bargains for, or obtains any
money or thing of value of or from any person, firm, or corporation
for the purpose of abandoning the same or stopping the circulation of
petitions concerning the same, or failing or neglecting or refusing
to file the measure or petition in the office of the elections
official or other officer designated by law within the time required
by law after obtaining the number of signatures required under the
law to qualify the measure or petition, or performing any act that
will prevent or aid in preventing the initiative, referendum or
recall proposed from qualifying as an initiative or referendum
measure, or resulting in a recall election is punishable by a fine
not exceeding five thousand dollars ($5,000) or by imprisonment in
the state prison for 16 months or two or three years or in a county
jail not exceeding one year, or by both the fine and imprisonment.

18622. Every person who offers to buy or does buy from a circulator
any referendum, initiative, or recall petition on which one or more
persons have affixed their signatures is guilty of a misdemeanor
punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one
year, or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or
both. This section is not intended to prohibit compensation of a
circulator, for his or her services, by a proponent of the petition
or his or her agent.