| 1. Authorized by candidate. Whenever a person makes an |
expenditure to finance a communication expressly advocating |
the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate |
through broadcasting stations, newspapers, magazines, outdoor |
advertising facilities, direct mails or other similar types of |
general public political advertising or through flyers, |
handbills, bumper stickers and other nonperiodical |
publications, the communication, if authorized by a candidate, |
a candidate's authorized political committee or their agents, |
must clearly and conspicuously state that the communication |
has been so authorized and must clearly state the name and |
address of the person who made or financed the expenditure for |
the communication. The following forms of political |
communication do not require the name and address of 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. In |
an election in which there is no candidate who is not |
certified under chapter 14, a person other than a candidate or |
a candidate's authorized political committee may not make a |
communication by mail for or against a candidate. |