REFERENCE TITLE: public officers; employees; promotional materials

State of Arizona Senate Fiftieth Legislature Second Regular Session 2012

SB 1394

Introduced by Senator Gallardo

 

AN ACT

 

amending Title 38, chapter 3, article 8, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 38-504.01; relating to public officers and employees.

 

 

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Title 38, chapter 3, article 8, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 38-504.01, to read:

START_STATUTE38-504.01.  Campaign season mailers; public expense; prohibition

A.  Notwithstanding section 41-133, for a period of one year before an election, A public officer or employee shall not cause to be printed, mailed, broadcast, transmitted or otherwise conveyed to the public any promotional or informational material at public expense that features the face or voice of a person who is a candidate for any public office in this state at that election.

B.  A person is a candidate for public office if the person circulates a nomination petition to collect signatures, registers an exploratory committee as prescribed in title 16, chapter 6 or is the candidate named in a candidate campaign committee registration as prescribed in Title 16, chapter 6.

C.  This section does not apply to otherwise lawful expenditures of citizens clean elections commission monies by a candidate. END_STATUTE