1. (a) In this section, “walk-around services” means the following activities if performed for money while the polls are open:

   1. (1) distributing campaign material;
   2. (2) stationing a person, including oneself, or an object in the path of a voter;
   3. (3) electioneering or canvassing as described in § 16-206 of this article;
   4. (4) communicating in any other manner a voting preference or choice; or
   5. (5) performing any other service as a poll worker or distributor of sample ballots.

2. (b) This section does not apply to:

   1. (1) meals, beverages, and refreshments served to campaign workers;
   2. (2) salaries of regularly employed personnel in campaign headquarters;
   3. (3) media advertising, including newspaper, radio, television, billboard, or aerial advertising;
   4. (4) rent and regular office expenses; or
   5. (5) the cost of telephoning voters or transporting voters to and from polling places.

3. (c)

   1. (1) A campaign finance entity, or a person acting on its behalf, may not at any time, directly or indirectly, pay or incur an obligation to pay, and a person may not, directly or indirectly, receive any money or thing of value, for a political endorsement.

   2. (2)

      1. (i) A campaign finance entity, or a person acting on its behalf, that pays any person for walk-around services shall make all payments by check from a campaign account designated under § 13-220(a) of this subtitle.
      2. (ii) All payments made under subparagraph (i) of this paragraph shall be reported in accordance with § 13-304 of this title.

Added by Acts 2002, c. 291, § 4, eff. Jan. 1, 2003. Amended by Acts 2004, c. 264, § 1, eff. July 1, 2004.

Formerly Art. 33, § 13-209.