Section 1-19-1 - Campaign practices; primary election; expenditure of party money. - New Mexico Statutes

1-19-1. Campaign practices; primary election; expenditure of party money.

A.     No contribution of money, or the equivalent thereof, made directly or indirectly to any political party, to any political party committee, to members of any political party committee or to any person representing or acting on behalf of a political party, and no money in the treasury of any political party or political party committee shall be expended directly or indirectly in the aid of the nomination at a primary election of any one or more persons as against any one or more other persons of the same political party running in such primary election.   

B.     Any person who expends money, or is responsible for the expenditure of money, in violation of this section is guilty of a petty misdemeanor.