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- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1986, 631, Sec. 3 - Chapter 55, Section 4
Chapter 55: Section 4. Repealed, 1986, 631, Sec. 3
- Massachusetts General Laws - Political committees; statement of organization; officers; duties; expenditures; incorporation; penalties - Chapter 55, Section 5
Each political committee shall organize by filing with the director or, if organized for the purpose of a city or town election only, with the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Elected public officials; principal officer of political action committees - Chapter 55, Section 5A
No candidate or individual holding elective public office shall establish, finance, maintain, control or serve as a principal officer of a political action committee; provided,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Names or phrases identifying political committees in organizational statements - Chapter 55, Section 5B
(a) Every political committee, other than a political party committee or a candidate’s committee, shall name and identify itself in its organizational statement pursuant to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Restrictions on expenditures; penalties - Chapter 55, Section 6
A political committee organized or operating on behalf of a candidate for the office of governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, state secretary, treasurer and receiver...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Contributions from political action committees; limitations - Chapter 55, Section 6A
A candidate and such candidate’s committee shall not accept any contribution from a political action committee if such contribution would result in such candidate and...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Ballot question committees; contributions - Chapter 55, Section 6B
A ballot question committee may receive, pay and expend money or other things of value solely for the purpose of favoring or opposing the adoption...
Political Contributions
- Massachusetts General Laws - Receipts, disbursements and contributions regulated; limitations; penalties - Chapter 55, Section 7
No person or combination of persons, including a corporation formed under the provisions of chapter one hundred and eighty, shall in connection with any nomination...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Campaign contributions to candidates from individuals; limitations; contributions from legislative and executive agents - Chapter 55, Section 7A
(a)(1) An individual may make campaign contributions to candidates or candidate’s committees; provided, however, that the aggregate of all such contributions for the benefit of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Political contributions by corporations; penalties - Chapter 55, Section 8
No corporation carrying on the business of a bank, trust, surety indemnity, safe deposit, insurance, railroad, street railway, telegraph, telephone, gas, electric light, heat, power,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Media organizations offering time or space to qualified candidates at no cost or at reduced price; limitations - Chapter 55, Section 8A
(1) As used in this section the following words shall have the following meanings:— “Media organization”, any corporation, partnership or trust which owns or controls...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Contributions and expenditures over $50; use of credit card by committee; penalties - Chapter 55, Section 9
No individual, candidate or political committee, or person acting on behalf of said individual, candidate, or political committee, shall accept a contribution of money from...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Contributions by electronic means; acceptance by political action committee; authorization cards - Chapter 55, Section 9A
A political action committee may accept contributions of money from individual contributors by direct deposit of funds into the committee’s bank account by wire transfer...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Name and address of donor; disclosure; penalties - Chapter 55, Section 10
No person shall, directly or indirectly, make a campaign contribution in any name except his own nor in any manner for the purpose of disguising...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Treatment of contributions to candidate through intermediary or conduit - Chapter 55, Section 10A
(a) Contributions made by a person to or on behalf of a particular candidate, including contributions made through an intermediary or conduit, shall be treated...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Soliciting from candidates prohibited; exception; penalties - Chapter 55, Section 11
No person, no political committee and no person acting under the authority of a political committee or in its behalf, shall demand, solicit, ask or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Soliciting of money for nomination papers prohibited; penalties - Chapter 55, Section 12
No political committee, and no person acting under its authority or in its behalf, shall demand or solicit from any candidate for nomination to elective...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Solicitation or receipt of political campaign contributions by appointive public officers or employees prohibited; exception; penalties - Chapter 55, Section 13
No person employed for compensation, other than an elected officer, by the commonwealth or any county, city or town shall directly or indirectly solicit or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Soliciting contributions in public buildings prohibited; penalties - Chapter 55, Section 14
No person shall in any building or part thereof occupied for state, county or municipal purposes demand, solicit or receive any payment or gift of...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Political contributions by public officers or employees restricted; penalties - Chapter 55, Section 15
No officer, clerk or other person in the service of the commonwealth or of any county, city or town shall, directly or indirectly, give or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Requiring political contributions or services of persons in public service prohibited; penalty - Chapter 55, Section 16
No person in the public service shall, for that reason, be under obligation to contribute to any political fund, or to render any political service,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Obligation to make political contribution or render political service; penalty - Chapter 55, Section 16A
No person doing business with the commonwealth shall, for that reason, be under obligation to contribute to any political fund, or to render any political...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Obligation to make political contribution or render political service employed for compensation; penalties - Chapter 55, Section 16B
No person employed for compensation shall be under any obligation to contribute to any candidate or political committee, or to render any political service on...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Public service status of officers or employees protected relative to political contributions; penalty - Chapter 55, Section 17
No officer or employee of the commonwealth or of any county, city or town shall discharge, promote, or degrade an officer or employee, or change...
Statements and Reports of Political Contributions and Expenditures of Candidates and Committees
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reports of contributions and expenditures; persons required to file; contents; reporting periods; time limits; penalties - Chapter 55, Section 18
Each candidate and each treasurer of a political committee shall file with the director or, if the candidate seeks public office at a city or...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Reports of independent expenditures - Chapter 55, Section 18A
Every individual, group or association not defined as a political committee, who makes an independent expenditure or expenditures in an aggregate amount exceeding one hundred...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Candidate or elected official sponsoring fund raising event on behalf of non-resident candidate; reports of contributions; penalty - Chapter 55, Section 18B
Each candidate or elected official who sponsors a fund raising event in the commonwealth on behalf of a non-resident candidate shall file with the director...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Electronic reporting system; candidates and political committees; campaign finance reports and activity statements - Chapter 55, Section 18C
(a) The director shall develop an electronic reporting system for the submission, retrieval, storage and public disclosure of campaign finance reports and financial activity statements...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Campaign funds; designation of depository - Chapter 55, Section 19
(a) Candidates for nomination or election to the offices of governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, attorney general, state treasurer and receiver general, auditor, governor’s...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1979, 335, Sec. 2 - Chapter 55, Section 20
Chapter 55: Section 20. Repealed, 1979, 335, Sec. 2
- Massachusetts General Laws - Repealed, 1979, 335, Sec. 3 - Chapter 55, Section 21
Chapter 55: Section 21. Repealed, 1979, 335, Sec. 3
- Massachusetts General Laws - Corporations making contributions; filing of reports with director; penalties - Chapter 55, Section 22
The treasurer of a corporation, association, organization or other group of persons, other than a political committee organized under section 5, which has given, paid,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Expenditures for political purpose; report; punishment for violation; examination of accounts - Chapter 55, Section 22A
The treasurer of any city, town, or other governmental unit which has given, paid, expended or contributed, or promised to give, pay, expend or contribute...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Persons acting for political committees; accounts and vouchers to treasurers - Chapter 55, Section 23
Whoever, acting under the authority or in behalf of a political committee, receives any money or its equivalent, or promise of the same, or expends...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Place of filing statements; signing - Chapter 55, Section 24
If the statement required to be filed by a candidate, treasurer or other person relates to a nomination or election to a city or town...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Preservation of statements and reports by director; public inspection and reproduction - Chapter 55, Section 25
The director shall retain all statements and reports filed with his office under the provisions of this chapter by candidates and their committees until December...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Preservation of statements and reports by city or town clerk; public inspection and reproduction - Chapter 55, Section 26
The city or town clerk shall retain all reports and statements required to be filed with him until the term of the office the candidate...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Furnishing blanks and forms for statements and reports, and summary of laws - Chapter 55, Section 27
The director shall furnish to city and town clerks at the expense of the commonwealth, blanks and forms approved by him and by the attorney...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Inspection of statements and reports; delinquencies; notice; filing - Chapter 55, Section 28
The clerk of cities and towns shall inspect all statements and reports of candidates, or nonelected political committees supporting such candidates, filed with them, within...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Failure to file statement, report or affidavit; notice to and duties of director and attorney general - Chapter 55, Section 29
Upon failure to file a statement, report or affidavit within ten days after receiving notice under section twenty-eight, the city or town clerk, as the...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Courts' authority to compel filing of statements - Chapter 55, Section 30
The supreme judicial or superior court may compel any person failing to file a statement as above required, or filing a statement not conforming to...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Immunity of witnesses - Chapter 55, Section 31
No person compelled to testify in any proceedings under section thirty shall be liable to criminal prosecution for any matters or causes in respect of...
General Provisions Relative to Corrupt Practices
Election Inquests
- Massachusetts General Laws - Inquests upon complaint for violations - Chapter 55, Section 35
Upon a complaint subscribed and sworn to by any person before a district court, alleging that reasonable grounds exist for believing that any law relating...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Conduct of inquests - Chapter 55, Section 36
The court may exclude all persons whose presence is not necessary at such inquest; and may also direct the witnesses to be kept so separated...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Witnesses; attendance; process; fees - Chapter 55, Section 37
Such court or attorney may issue subpoenas for witnesses, who shall be allowed the same fees, whose attendance may be enforced in the same manner,...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Stenographer - Chapter 55, Section 38
Such court may employ a stenographer and may have the proceedings reduced to writing; and, if he finds that the law has been violated, shall...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Witnesses; binding over to superior court - Chapter 55, Section 39
The court may bind over, as in criminal prosecutions, such witnesses as are necessary, or as said attorney may designate, to appear and testify in...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Apprehension of offenders - Chapter 55, Section 40
If a person charged by the report with the commission of an offence is not in custody, the court shall forthwith issue a process for...
- Massachusetts General Laws - Witnesses; compulsory testimony; immunity - Chapter 55, Section 41
No person shall be excused from testifying or producing any papers in any inquest proceedings under sections thirty-five to forty, inclusive, on the ground that...
Penalty for Corrupt Practices
Last modified: March 17, 2010
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