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CHAPTER 271

 
S.P. 247 - L.D. 749

 
An Act To Limit the Political Activity of the Members of

 
the Commission on Governmental Ethics and Election

 
Practices

 
Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

 
Sec. 1. 1 MRSA §1002, sub-§2, as amended by PL 1991, c. 86, is
further amended to read:

 
2. Qualifications. The members of the commission must be
persons of recognized judgment, probity and objectivity. A person
may not be appointed to this commission who is a member of the
Legislature or who was a member of the previous Legislature, or
who was a declared candidate for an elective county, state or
federal office within 2 years prior to the appointment, or who
now holds an elective county, state or federal office, or who is
an officer of a political committee, party committee or political
action committee or who holds a position in a political party or
campaign.

 
Sec. 2. 1 MRSA §1002, sub-§6 is enacted to read:

 
6.__Prohibited activities.__A member of the commission may not
engage in political fund-raising to promote the election or defeat of a
candidate, passage or defeat of a ballot measure or endorse a political
candidate.__This prohibition does not apply to fund-raising for campaigns
or endorsement of candidates at the county or municipal level or out-of-
state nonfederal elections.


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