* § 14-202. Contribution limits. Recipients of funds pursuant to this title shall be subject to the following contribution limits:
- 1. In the two thousand fourteen election for comptroller, or for nomination to such office, no contributor may make a contribution to any candidate or political committee participating in the state's public campaign financing system as defined in title two of this article, and no such candidate or political committee may accept any contribution from any contributor, which is in the aggregate amount greater than: (a) in the case of any nomination to public office, the product of the total number of enrolled voters in the candidate's party in the state, excluding voters in inactive status, multiplied by $.005, but such amount shall be not more than six thousand dollars and (b) in the case of any election to such public office, six thousand dollars; provided however, that the maximum amount which may be so contributed or accepted, in the aggregate, from any candidate's child, parent, grandparent, brother and sister, and the spouse of any such persons, shall not exceed in the case of any nomination to public office an amount equivalent to the product of the number of enrolled voters in the candidate's party in the state, excluding voters in inactive status, multiplied by $.025, and in the case of any election for a public office, an amount equivalent to the product of the number of registered voters in the state excluding voters in inactive status, multiplied by $.025.
- 2. In the event that a candidate for the two thousand fourteen election for comptroller has received a contribution which exceeds the limitations of this subdivision prior to becoming a participating candidate in the state's matching campaign financing system, the candidate shall either (a) deposit any amount in excess of the contribution limit set forth in this subdivision, into a segregated account where it shall not be withdrawn for campaign expenditures for any comptroller election in the year two thousand fourteen; or (b) return any amount in excess of the contribution limit set forth in this section, by bank check or certified check made out to the contributor. * NB Repealed December 31, 2014