* § 14-200. Definitions. For the purposes of this title, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

1. 1. The term "authorized committee" shall mean the single committee designated by a candidate pursuant to section 14-201 of this title to receive contributions and make expenditures in support of the candidate's campaign.
2. 2. The term "board" shall mean the state board of elections.
3. 3. The term "contribution" shall have the same meaning as appears in subdivision nine of section 14-100 of this article.
4. 4. The term "contributor" shall mean any person or entity that makes a contribution.
5. 5. The term "covered election" shall mean any primary or general election for nomination for election, or election, to the office of state comptroller.
6. 6. The term "election cycle" shall mean the four year period starting after the day after the last general election for candidates for statewide office.
7. 7. The term "expenditure" shall mean any gift, subscription, advance, payment, or deposit of money or anything of value, or a contract to make any gift, subscription, payment, or deposit of money or anything of value, made in connection with the nomination for election, or election, of any candidate. Expenditures made by contract are deemed made when such funds are obligated.
8. 8. The term "fund" shall mean the New York state campaign finance fund.
9. 9. The term "immediate family" shall mean a spouse, domestic partner, child, sibling or parent.
10. 10. The term "intermediary" shall mean an individual, corporation, partnership, political committee, employee organization or other entity which bundles, causes to be delivered or otherwise delivers any contribution from another person or entity to a candidate or authorized committee, other than in the regular course of business as a postal, delivery or messenger service. Provided, however, that an "intermediary" shall not include spouses, domestic partners, parents, children or siblings of the person making such contribution or a staff member or volunteer of the campaign identified in writing to the state board of elections. Here "causes to be delivered" shall include providing postage, envelopes or other shipping materials for the use of delivering the contribution to the ultimate recipient.
11. 11. The term "item with significant intrinsic and enduring value" shall mean any item, including tickets to an event, that are valued at twenty-five dollars or more.

12. 12.

    1. (a) The term "matchable contribution" shall mean a contribution, contributions or a portion of a contribution or contributions for any covered elections held in the same election cycle, made by a natural person who is a resident in the state of New York to a participating candidate, that has been reported in full to the board in accordance with sections 14-102 and 14-104 of this article by the candidate's authorized committee and has been contributed on or before the day of the applicable election. Any contribution, contributions, or a portion of a contribution determined to be invalid for matching funds by the board may not be treated as a matchable contribution for any purpose.

    2. (b) The following contributions are not matchable:

       1. (i) loans;
       2. (ii) in-kind contributions of property, goods, or services;
       3. (iii) contributions in the form of the purchase price paid for an item with significant intrinsic and enduring value;
       4. (iv) transfers from a party or constituted committee;
       5. (v) anonymous contributions or contributions whose source is not itemized as required by section 14-201 of this title;
       6. (vi) contributions gathered during a previous election cycle;
       7. (vii) illegal contributions;
       8. (viii) contributions from persons under eighteen;
       9. (ix) contributions from vendors for campaigns; and
       10. (x) contributions from lobbyists registered pursuant to subdivision (a) of section one-c of the legislative law.
13. 13. The term "nonparticipating candidate" shall mean a candidate for a covered election who fails to file a written certification in the form of an affidavit under section 14-204 of this title by the applicable deadline.
14. 14. The term "participating candidate" shall mean any candidate for nomination for election, or election, to the office of state comptroller who files a written certification in the form of an affidavit pursuant to section 14-204 of this title.
15. 15. The term "post-election period" shall mean the six months following the two thousand fourteen comptroller election when a candidate is subject to an audit.
16. 16. The term "qualified campaign expenditure" shall mean an expenditure for which public matching funds may be used.
17. 17. The term "threshold for eligibility" shall mean the amount of matchable contributions that a candidate's authorized committee must receive in total in order for such candidate to qualify for voluntary public financing under this title.
18. 18. The term "transfer" shall mean any exchange of funds between a party or constituted committee and a candidate or any of his or her authorized committees. * NB Repealed December 31, 2014