Presidential candidate expenditure limitations.

CFR · 2024-01-01 · US · Title 11

(a)(1) No candidate for the office of President of the United States who is eligible under 26 U.S.C. 9003 (relating to conditions for eligibility for payments) or under 26 U.S.C. 9033 (relating to eligibility for payments) to receive payments from the Secretary of the Treasury and has received payments, may make expenditures in excess of— (i) $10,000,000 in the case of a campaign for nomination for election to the office, except the aggregate of expenditures under this paragraph in any one State shall not exceed the greater of 16 cents multiplied by the voting age population of the State or $200,000; or (ii) $20,000,000 in the case of a campaign for election to the office. (2) The expenditure limitations in paragraph (a)(1) of this section shall be increased in accordance with 11 CFR 110.17. (3) Voting age population is defined at 11 CFR 110.18. (b) The expenditure limitations shall not be considered violated if, after the date of the primary or general election, convention or caucus, receipt of refunds and rebates causes a candidate's expenditures to be within the limitations. (c) For the State limitations in paragraph (a)(1) of this section— (1) Expenditures made in a State after the date of the primary election, convention or caucus relating to the primary election, convention or caucus count toward that State's expenditure limitation; (2) The candidate may treat an amount that does not exceed 50% of the candidate's total expenditures allocable to a particular State under

official document · source cfr-2024 · id 11:§ 110.8