Political committee (52 U.S.C. 30101(4), (5), and (6)).

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 11

(a) Except as provided in 11 CFR 100.5 (b), (c) and (d), any committee, club, association, or other group of persons which receives contributions aggregating in excess of $1,000 or which makes expenditures aggregating in excess of $1,000 during a calendar year is a political committee. (b) Any separate segregated fund established under 52 U.S.C. 30118(b)(2)(C) is a political committee. (c) Any local committee of a political party is a political committee if: it receives contributions aggregating in excess of $5,000 during a calendar year; it makes payments exempted from the definition of contribution, under 11 (d) An individual's principal campaign committee or authorized committee(s) becomes a political committee(s) when that individual becomes a candidate pursuant to 11 CFR 100.3. (e) The following are examples of political committees: (1) (2) (3) (i) Has been registered with the Commission for at least 6 months; (ii) Has received contributions for Federal elections from more than 50 persons; and (iii) Except for any State political party organization, has made contributions to 5 or more Federal candidates. (4) (5) (6) (7) (f) A political committee is either an authorized committee or an unauthorized committee. (1) (2) (g) (2) All committees (including a separate segregated fund, (3) Affiliated committees sharing a single contribution limitation under paragraph (g)(2) of this section include all of the committees established, financed, maintained or controlled by— (i) A sin

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 11:§ 100.5