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the person who made or authorized the expenditure for the | | communication because the name or address would be so small as | | to be illegible or infeasible: ashtrays, badges and badge | | holders, balloons, campaign buttons, clothing, coasters, combs, | | emery boards, envelopes, erasers, glasses, key rings, letter | | openers, matchbooks, nail files, noisemakers, paper and plastic | | cups, pencils, pens, plastic tableware, 12-inch or shorter | | rulers, swizzle sticks, tickets to fund-raisers and similar | | items determined by the commission to be too small and | | unnecessary for the disclosures required by this section. |
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| | | 2. Not authorized by candidate. If the communication | described in subsection 1 is not authorized by a candidate, a | candidate's authorized political committee or their agents, | the communication must clearly and conspicuously state that | the communication is not authorized by any candidate and state | the name and address of the person who made or financed the | expenditure for the communication | | organization responsible for the communication is subject to | | the provisions of section 1015, subsection 12. |
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| | | 3. Broadcasting prohibited without disclosure. No | | operating a broadcasting station within this State may not | | broadcast any communication, as described in subsections 1 and | | 2, without an oral or written visual announcement of the name | | of the person who made or financed the expenditure for the | | communication. |
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| | | 3-A. In-kind contributions of printed materials. A | | candidate, political committee or political action committee | | shall report on the campaign finance report as a contribution | | to the candidate, political committee or political action | | committee any contributions of in-kind printed materials to be | | used in the support of a candidate or in the support or defeat | | of a cause to be voted upon at referendum. Any in-kind | | contributions of printed materials used or distributed by a | | candidate, political committee or political action committee | | must include the name or title of that candidate, political | | committee or political action committee as the authorizing | | agent for the printing and distribution of the in-kind | | contribution. |
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| | | The use or distribution of in-kind printed materials | | contributed to a candidate, political committee or political | | action committee must be reported as an expenditure on the | | campaign finance report of that candidate, political committee | | or political action committee. |
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| | | 4. Enforcement. An | | expenditure, communication or broadcast made within 10 days | | before the election to which it relates that results in a | | violation of this section may result in a civil forfeiture of | | no |
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