{"data":{"id":"us-ca/elec-18622","jurisdiction":"us-ca","citation":"ELEC § 18622","heading":"","body":"Every person who offers to buy or does buy from a circulator any referendum, initiative, or recall petition on which one or more persons have affixed their signatures is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year, or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or both. This section is not intended to prohibit compensation of a circulator, for his or her services, by a proponent of the petition or his or her agent.","path":["Elections Code - ELEC","DIVISION 18. PENAL PROVISIONS [18000. - 18700.]","CHAPTER 7. Initiative, Referendum, and Recall [18600. - 18680.]","ARTICLE 3. Improper Payments to Prevent Petition Circulation and Filing [18620. - 18622.]"],"source_url":"https://downloads.leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/pubinfo_2025.zip","current_through":"2026-09-13","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-14T05:56:33Z","sha256":"e6b1f27ab2e3b891e52f48eabe3dc7ce3b148788a8f996acd0019161b255c902","source_id":"us-ca","stale":false,"prev":"us-ca/elec-18621","next":"us-ca/elec-18630"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}