N.Y. Education Law § 1528: Expenditure and contribution statement

§ 1528. Expenditure and contribution statement. 1. (a) Any candidate

for election to the board of education, except a candidate for member of

the community district education council of a New York city community

school district, shall file sworn statements with the clerk of the

school district in which he or she is a candidate and the commissioner

setting forth all moneys or other valuable things, paid, given, expended

or promised by him or her, or incurred for or on his or her behalf with

his or her approval to be filed with the aforesaid clerk and

commissioner by any person, firm, association or corporation, to aid his

or her own nomination or election, or to aid or influence the nomination

or defeat of any candidate to be voted for at the election. Any

candidate for election, if he or she expended nothing or his or her only

expenditures were for personal expenses which when taken together with

the total expenditures incurred by others on his or her behalf and with

his or her approval do not exceed five hundred dollars, and if the

aggregate amount of all contributions made to such candidate do not

exceed five hundred dollars, shall not be required to file any

statements with the commissioner; however such candidate shall file with

the clerk of the school district a sworn statement to the effect that

his or her election expenditures did not exceed five hundred dollars and

contributions received did not exceed five hundred dollars.

(b) Any required contribution statements shall include the dollar

amount of any receipt, contribution or transfer, or the fair market

value of any receipt, contribution or transfer, which is other than of

money, the name and address of the transferor, contributor or person

from whom received, and if the transferor, contributor or person is a

political committee as defined in subdivision one of section 14-100 of

the election law; the name of and the political unit represented by the

committee, the date of its receipt, the dollar amount of every

expenditure, the name and address of the person to whom it was made or

the name of and the political unit represented by the committee to which

it was made and the date thereof.

(c) No person or persons shall make expenditures on behalf of a

candidate without his or her approval unless such person or persons

files a sworn statement with the clerk and commissioner stating that the

candidate did not approve such expenditure. Such expenditure shall be

limited to twenty-five dollars and shall not be included in determining

the five hundred dollars as set forth in paragraph (a) of this

subdivision.

2. For the purposes of this section, personal expenses shall include

only payments for traveling expenses and expenses incidental thereto,

for writing, printing and preparing for transmission any letter,

circular, or other publication not issued at regular intervals,

containing a statement of the position or views of the candidate or

person upon public or other questions, for stationery and postage and

for telegraph, telephone and other public messenger service; but all

such expenses shall be limited to those which are directly and

personally incurred and paid by the candidate.