{"data":{"id":"us-ak/as-24.60.031","jurisdiction":"us-ak","citation":"AS 24.60.031","heading":"Restrictions on fund raising.","body":"(a) A legislative employee may not\n(1) on a day when either house of the legislature is in regular or special session, solicit or accept a contribution or a promise or pledge to make a contribution for a campaign for state or municipal office; however, a legislative employee may, except in the capital city or in the municipality in which the legislature is convened in special session if the legislature is convened in a municipality other than the capital city, solicit or accept a contribution, promise, or pledge for a campaign for state or municipal office that occurs during the 90 days immediately preceding the election for that office; or\n(2) accept money from an event held on a day when either house of the legislature is in regular or special session if a substantial purpose of the event is to raise money on behalf of the legislative employee for political purposes; however, this paragraph does not prohibit a legislative employee from accepting money from an event held in a place other than the capital city or a municipality in which the legislature is convened in special session if the legislature is convened in a municipality other than the capital city during the 90 days immediately preceding an election for state or municipal public office in which the legislative employee is a candidate.\n(b) A legislator may not\n(1) on a day when either house of the legislature is in regular or special session, solicit or accept a contribution or a promise or pledge to make a contribution\n(A) for the legislator's own campaign for state or municipal public office, unless the solicitation, acceptance, promise, or pledge occurs in a place other than the capital city or a municipality in which the legislature is convened in special session if the legislature is convened in a municipality other than the capital city during the 90 days immediately preceding the election in which the legislator is a candidate;\n(B) for another candidate in an election for municipal, state, or federal office;\n(C) to influence a state ballot proposition or question; or\n(D) for a political party;\n(2) accept money from an event held on a day when either house of the legislature is in regular or special session if a substantial purpose of the event is to raise money on behalf of the legislator's campaign for state or municipal public office; however, this paragraph does not prohibit a legislator from accepting money from an event held in a place other than the capital city or a municipality in which the legislature is convened in special session if the legislature is convened in a municipality other than the capital city during the 90 days immediately preceding a state or municipal election in which the legislator is a candidate; or\n(3) in a campaign for state or municipal office, expend money that was raised on a day when either house of the legislature was in a legislative session by or on behalf of a legislator under a declaration of candidacy or a general letter of intent to become a candidate for public office; however, this paragraph does not apply to money raised in a place other than the capital city or a municipality in which the legislature is convened in special session if the legislature is convened in a municipality other than the capital city during the 90 days immediately preceding an election in which the legislator is a candidate.\n(c) In this section, “contribution” has the meaning given in AS 15.13.400.","path":["Title 24. Legislature and Lobbying.","Chapter 60. Standards of Conduct.","Article 2. Standards of Conduct."],"source_url":"https://www.akleg.gov/basis/statutes.asp#24.60.031","current_through":"Alaska Statutes 2025 (34th Legislature, 2025-2026)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-02T06:17:50Z","sha256":"0c2c4edd5afbe1cd9456d11db29f2c4630043e60d67345b10b86f229e75fffa3","source_id":"us-ak","stale":false,"prev":"us-ak/as-24.60.030","next":"us-ak/as-24.60.033"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}