4-20 Contribution Limits; Bank Accounts

A. No person shall make a contribution in an amount which exceeds five hundred dollars in the aggregate for any primary, general or special election to any county candidate or any county political committee making coordinated expenditures.

B. Nothing in this Title shall be construed to prohibit a county political party from making contributions, independent expenditures or coordinated expenditures to or on behalf of county candidates, provided that:

    1. County political party contributions to county candidates, including coordinated expenditures, shall not exceed the aggregate contribution limit applicable to all other persons as set forth in Section 4.20(A);
    2. All contributions, independent expenditures and coordinated expenditures made by a county political party to, on the behalf of or in opposition to a county candidate, shall be made from a segregated fund established for the sole purpose of making any such contributions or expenditures. Such segregated fund shall be maintained at a bank operating under federal or state charter, and all account activity of such segregated fund shall be exclusively subject to the provisions of this Title and not those of state law.
    3. A county political party shall timely report and disclose all coordinated expenditures, and all independent expenditures in excess of two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00), in the manner and to the extent required in Section 4.30 of this Title.

C. All county committees shall deposit all contributions to and make all expenditures from a segregated fund maintained exclusively for such purposes at a bank operating under federal or state charter. Contributions shall be deposited into such segregated fund within seven (7) days of receipt by the committee in question.