Section 13-245 - Prohibited expenditures. - Maryland Statutes

§ 13-245. Prohibited expenditures.
 

(a)  Definitions.- In this section, "walk-around services" means the following activities if performed for money while the polls are open: 

(1) distributing campaign material; 

(2) stationing a person, including oneself, or an object in the path of a voter; 

(3) electioneering or canvassing as described in § 16-206 of this article; 

(4) communicating in any other manner a voting preference or choice; or 

(5) performing any other service as a poll worker or distributor of sample ballots. 

(b)  Scope.- This section does not apply to: 

(1) meals, beverages, and refreshments served to campaign workers; 

(2) salaries of regularly employed personnel in campaign headquarters; 

(3) media advertising, including newspaper, radio, television, billboard, or aerial advertising; 

(4) rent and regular office expenses; or 

(5) the cost of telephoning voters or transporting voters to and from polling places. 

(c)  Prohibition.-  

(1) A campaign finance entity, or a person acting on its behalf, may not at any time, directly or indirectly, pay or incur an obligation to pay, and a person may not, directly or indirectly, receive any money or thing of value, for a political endorsement. 

(2) (i) A campaign finance entity, or a person acting on its behalf, that pays any person for walk-around services shall make all payments by check from a campaign account designated under § 13-220(a) of this subtitle. 

(ii) All payments made under subparagraph (i) of this paragraph shall be reported in accordance with § 13-304 of this title. 
 

[An. Code 1957, art. 33, § 13-209; 2002, ch. 291, § 4; 2004, ch. 264.]