California Law (Last Updated: March 4, 2014) |
Elections Code - ELEC |
Division 18. PENAL PROVISIONS |
Chapter 7. Initiative, Referendum, and Recall |
ARTICLE 3. Improper Payments to Prevent Petition Circulation and Filing |
Section 18622.
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Every person who offers to buy or does buy from a circulator any referendum, initiative, or recall petition on which one or more persons have affixed their signatures is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year, or by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars ($1,000), or both. This section is not intended to prohibit compensation of a circulator, for his or her services, by a proponent of the petition or his or her agent.
(Enacted by Stats. 1994, Ch. 920, Sec. 2.)