N.Y. Election Law § 14-120: Campaign contribution to be under true name of contributor

§ 14-120. Campaign contribution to be under true name of contributor.

1. No person shall in any name except his own, directly or indirectly,

make a payment or a promise of payment to a candidate or political

committee or to any officer or member thereof, or to any person acting

under its authority or in its behalf or on behalf of any candidate, nor

shall any such committee or any such person or candidate knowingly

receive a payment or promise of payment, or enter or cause the same to

be entered in the accounts or records of such committee, in any name

other than that of the person or persons by whom it is made.

2. Notwithstanding subdivision one of this section, a partnership, as

defined in section ten of the partnership law, may be considered a

separate entity for the purposes of this section, and as such may make

contributions in the name of said partnership without attributing such

contributions to the individual members of the partnership provided that

any such contribution made by a partnership to a candidate or to a

political committee, shall not exceed, twenty-five hundred dollars. In

the event that such partnership contribution to any such candidate or

political committee exceeds twenty-five hundred dollars, the aggregate

amount of such contribution shall be attributed to each partner whose

share of the contribution exceeds ninety-nine dollars.

3. (a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, all contributions made

to a campaign or political committee by a limited liability company

shall be attributed to each member of the limited liability company in

proportion to the member's ownership interest in the limited liability

company.

(b) If, by application of paragraph (a) of this subdivision, a

campaign contribution is attributed to a limited liability company, the

contributions shall be further attributed to each member of the limited

liability company in proportion to the member's ownership interest in

the limited liability company.

(c) The state board of elections shall enact regulations that prevent

the avoidance of the rules set forth in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this

subdivision.