§ 163-278.18. Normal commercial charges for political advertising. - North Carolina Statutes

§ 163‑278.18. Normal commercial charges for political advertising.

(a)        No media and no supplier of materials or services shallcharge or require a candidate, treasurer, political party, or individual to paya charge for advertising, materials, space, or services purchased for or insupport of or in opposition to any candidate, political committee, or politicalparty that is higher than the normal charge it requires other customers to payfor comparable advertising, materials, space, or services purchased for otherpurposes.

(b)        A newspaper, magazine, or other advertising medium shall notcharge any candidate, treasurer, political committee, political party, orindividual for any advertising for or in support of or in opposition to anycandidate, political committee or political party at a rate higher than thecomparable rate charged to other persons for advertising of comparablefrequency and volume; and every candidate, treasurer, political party orindividual, with respect to political advertising, shall be entitled to thesame discounts afforded by the advertising medium to other advertisers undercomparable conditions and circumstances. (1973, c. 1272, s. 1; 1977, c. 856.)