Current through 2024 NY Law Chapter 457
Section 14-120 - Campaign contribution to be under true name of contributor1. No person shall in any name except his own, directly or indirectly, make a payment or a promise of payment to a candidate or political committee or to any officer or member thereof, or to any person acting under its authority or in its behalf or on behalf of any candidate, nor shall any such committee or any such person or candidate knowingly receive a payment or promise of payment, or enter or cause the same to be entered in the accounts or records of such committee, in any name other than that of the person or persons by whom it is made.2. Notwithstanding subdivision one of this section, a partnership, as defined in section ten of the partnership law, may be considered a separate entity for the purposes of this section, and as such may make contributions in the name of said partnership without attributing such contributions to the individual members of the partnership provided that any such contribution made by a partnership to a candidate or to a political committee, shall not exceed, twenty-five hundred dollars. In the event that such partnership contribution to any such candidate or political committee exceeds twenty-five hundred dollars, the aggregate amount of such contribution shall be attributed to each partner whose share of the contribution exceeds ninety-nine dollars.3.(a) Notwithstanding any law to the contrary, all contributions made to a campaign or political committee by a limited liability company shall be attributed to each member of the limited liability company in proportion to the member's ownership interest in the limited liability company.(b) If, by application of paragraph (a) of this subdivision, a campaign contribution is attributed to a limited liability company, the contributions shall be further attributed to each member of the limited liability company in proportion to the member's ownership interest in the limited liability company.(c) The state board of elections shall enact regulations that prevent the avoidance of the rules set forth in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this subdivision.Amended by New York Laws 2019, ch. 4,Sec. 2, eff. 1/31/2019.