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(A)(1) No campaign committee of a statewide candidate shall fail to file a complete and accurate statement required under division (A)(1) of section 3517.10 of the Revised Code.
(2) No campaign committee of a statewide candidate shall fail to file a complete and accurate monthly statement, and no campaign committee of a statewide candidate or a candidate for the office of chief justice or justice of the supreme court shall fail to file a complete and accurate two-business-day statement, as required under section 3517.10 of the Revised Code.
As used in this division, “statewide candidate” has the same meaning as in division (F)(2) of section 3517.10 of the Revised Code.
(B) No campaign committee shall fail to file a complete and accurate statement required under division (A)(1) of section 3517.10 of the Revised Code.
(C) No campaign committee shall fail to file a complete and accurate statement required under division (A)(2) of section 3517.10 of the Revised Code.
(D) No campaign committee shall fail to file a complete and accurate statement required under division (A)(3) or (4) of section 3517.10 of the Revised Code.
(E) No person other than a campaign committee shall knowingly fail to file a statement required under section 3517.10 or 3517.107 of the Revised Code.
(F) No person shall make cash contributions to any person totaling more than one hundred dollars in each primary, special, or general election.
(G)(1) No person shall knowingly conceal or misrepresent contributions given or received, expenditures made, or any other information required to be reported by a provision in sections 3517.08 to 3517.13 and 3517.17 of the Revised Code.
(2)(a) No person shall make a contribution to a campaign committee, political action committee, political contributing entity, legislative campaign fund, political party, or person making disbursements to pay the direct costs of producing or airing electioneering communications in the name of another person.
(b) A person does not make a contribution in the name of another when either of the following applies:
(i) An individual makes a contribution from a partnership or other unincorporated business account, if the contribution is reported by listing both the name of the partnership or other unincorporated business and the name of the partner or owner making the contribution as required under division (I) of section 3517.10 of the Revised Code.
(ii) A person makes a contribution in that person’s spouse’s name or in both of their names.
(H) No person within this state, publishing a newspaper or other periodical, shall charge a campaign committee for political advertising a rate in excess of the rate such person would charge if the campaign committee were a general rate advertiser whose advertising was directed to promoting its business within the same area as that encompassed by the particular office that the candidate of the campaign committee is seeking. The rate shall take into account the amount of space used, as well as the type of advertising copy submitted by or on behalf of the campaign committee. All discount privileges otherwise offered by a newspaper or periodical to general rate advertisers shall be available upon equal terms to all campaign committees.
No person within this state, operating a radio or television station or network of stations in this state, shall charge a campaign committee for political broadcasts a rate that exceeds:
(1) During the forty-five days preceding the date of a primary election and during the sixty days preceding the date of a general or special election in which the candidate of the campaign committee is seeking office, the lowest unit charge of the station for the same class and amount of time for the same period;
(2) At any other time, the charges made for comparable use of that station by its other users.
(I)(1)(a) Subject to divisions (K), (L), (M), and (N) of this section, no agency or department of this state shall award any contract for the purchase of goods costing more than five hundred dollars or services costing more than five hundred dollars, and no political subdivision shall award any contract for the purchase of goods with a cost aggregating more than ten thousand dollars in a calendar year or services with a cost aggregating more than ten thousand dollars in a calendar year, to any individual, partnership or other unincorporated business, association, including, without limitation, a professional association organized under Chapter 1785. of the Revised Code, estate, or trust if any of the following has made, as an individual, within the previous twenty-four months, one or more contributions totaling in excess of one thousand dollars to the holder of the public office having ultimate responsibility for the award of the contract or to the public officer’s campaign committee:
(i) The individual;
(ii) Any partner or owner of the partnership or other unincorporated business;
(iii) Any shareholder of the association;
(iv) Any administrator of the estate;
(v) Any executor of the estate;
(vi) Any trustee of the trust;
(vii) The spouse of any person identified in divisions (I)(1)(a)(i) to (vi) of this section;
(viii) Any child seven years of age through seventeen years of age of any person identified in divisions (I)(1)(a)(i) to (vi) of this section.
(b) Subject to divisions (K), (L), (M), and (N) of this section, no agency or department of this state shall award any contract for the purchase of goods costing more than five hundred dollars or services costing more than five hundred dollars, and no political subdivision shall award any contract for the purchase of goods with a cost aggregating more than ten thousand dollars in a calendar year or services with a cost aggregating more than ten thousand dollars in a calendar year, to any individual, partnership or other unincorporated business, association, including, without limitation, a professional association organized under Chapter 1785. of the Revised Code, estate, or trust if any combination of the following has made, within the previous twenty-four months, one or more contributions totaling in excess of two thousand dollars to the holder of the public office having ultimate responsibility for the award of the contract or to the public officer’s campaign committee:
(i) The individual;
(ii) Any partner or owner of the partnership or other unincorporated business;
(iii) Any shareholder of the association;
(iv) Any administrator of the estate;
(v) Any executor of the estate;
(vi) Any trustee of the trust;
(vii) The spouse of any person identified in divisions (I)(1)(b)(i) to (vi) of this section;
(viii) Any child seven years of age through seventeen years of age of any person identified in divisions (I)(1)(b)(i) to (vi) of this section;
(ix) Any political action committee affiliated with the partnership or other unincorporated business, association, estate, or trust.
(2)(a) Subject to divisions (K), (L), (M), and (N) of this section, if any agency or department of this state has awarded a contract for the purchase of goods costing more than five hundred dollars or services costing more than five hundred dollars, or if any political subdivision has awarded a contract for the purchase of goods with a cost aggregating more than ten thousand dollars in a calendar year or services with a cost aggregating more than ten thousand dollars in a calendar year, to any individual, partnership or other unincorporated business, association, including, without limitation, a professional association organized under Chapter 1785. of the Revised Code, estate, or trust, none of the following shall, beginning on the date the contract is awarded and extending until one year following the conclusion of that contract, make one or more contributions totaling in excess of one thousand dollars to the holder of the public office having ultimate responsibility for the award of that contract:
(i) The individual;
(ii) Any partner or owner of the partnership or other unincorporated business;
(iii) Any shareholder of the association;
(iv) Any administrator of the estate;
(v) Any executor of the estate;
(vi) Any trustee of the trust;
(vii) The spouse of any person identified in divisions (I)(2)(a)(i) to (vi) of this section;
(viii) Any child seven years of age through seventeen years of age of any person identified in divisions (I)(2)(a)(i) to (vi) of this section.
(b) Subject to divisions (K), (L), (M), and (N) of this section, if any agency or department of this state has awarded a contract for the purchase of goods costing more than five hundred dollars or services costing more than five hundred dollars, or if any political subdivision has awarded a contract for the purchase of goods with a cost aggregating more than ten thousand dollars in a calendar year or services with a cost aggregating more than ten thousand dollars in a calendar year, to any individual, partnership or other unincorporated business, association, including, without limitation, a professional association organized under Chapter 1785. of the Revised Code, estate, or trust, no combination of any of the following shall, beginning on the date the contract is awarded and extending until one year following the conclusion of that contract, make one or more contributions totaling in excess of two thousand dollars to the holder of the public office having ultimate responsibility for the award of that contract:
(i) The individual;
(ii) Any partner or owner of the partnership or other unincorporated business;
(iii) Any shareholder of the association;
(iv) Any administrator of the estate;
(v) Any executor of the estate;
(vi) Any trustee of the trust;
(vii) The spouse of any person identified in divisions (I)(2)(b)(i) to (vi) of this section;
(viii) Any child seven years of age through seventeen years of age of any person identified in divisions (I)(2)(b)(i) to (vi) of this section;
(ix) Any political action committee affiliated with the partnership or other unincorporated business, association, estate, or trust.
(3) Subject to divisions (L), (M), and (N) of this section, no agency or department of this state shall enter into any contract for the purchase of goods costing more than five hundred dollars or services costing more than five hundred dollars, and no political subdivision shall enter into any contract for the purchase of goods with a cost aggregating more than ten thousand dollars in a calendar year or services with a cost aggregating more than ten thousand dollars in a calendar year, with an individual, partnership or other unincorporated business, association, including, without limitation, a professional association organized under Chapter 1785. of the Revised Code, estate, or trust unless the agency, department, or political subdivision has received for that calendar year, or the contract includes, a certification by the individual, partnership or other unincorporated business, association, estate, or trust that all of the following persons, if applicable, are in compliance with division (I)(1) of this section:
(a) The individual;
(b) Each partner or owner of the partnership or other unincorporated business;
(c) Each shareholder of the association;
(d) Each administrator of the estate;
(e) Each executor of the estate;
(f) Each trustee of the trust;
(g) Each spouse of any person identified in divisions (I)(3)(a) to (f) of this section;
(h) Each child seven years of age to seventeen years of age of any person identified in divisions (I)(3)(a) to (f) of this section;
(i) Any combination of persons identified in divisions (I)(3)(a) to (h) of this section.
(4)(a) Subject to divisions (K), (L), (M), and (N) of this section, no agency or department of this state shall award any contract for the purchase of goods costing more than five hundred dollars or services costing more than five hundred dollars, and no political subdivision shall award any contract for the purchase of goods with a cost aggregating more than ten thousand dollars in a calendar year or services with a cost aggregating more than ten thousand dollars in a calendar year, to any partnership or other unincorporated business, association, including, without limitation, a professional association organized under Chapter 1785. of the Revised Code, estate, or trust if a political action committee that is affiliated with the partnership or other unincorporated business, association, estate, or trust has made, within the previous twenty-four months, one or more contributions totaling in excess of two thousand dollars to the holder of the public office having ultimate responsibility for the award of the contract or to the public officer’s campaign committee.
(b) Subject to divisions (K), (L), (M), and (N) of this section, if any agency or department of this state has awarded any contract for the purchase of goods costing more than five hundred dollars or services costing more than five hundred dollars, or if any political subdivision has awarded a contract for the purchase of goods with a cost aggregating more than ten thousand dollars in a calendar year or services with a cost aggregating more than ten thousand dollars in a calendar year, to any partnership or other unincorporated business, association, including, without limitation, a professional association organized under Chapter 1785. of the Revised Code, estate, or trust, no political action committee that is affiliated with the partnership or other unincorporated business, association, estate, or trust shall, beginning on the date the contract is awarded and extending until one year following the conclusion of that contract, make one or more contributions totaling in excess of two thousand dollars to the holder of the public office having ultimate responsibility for the award of the contract or to the public officer’s campaign committee.
(J)(1)(a) Subject to divisions (K), (L), (M), and (N) of this section, no agency or department of this state shall award any contract for the purchase of goods costing more than five hundred dollars or services costing more than five hundred dollars, and no political subdivision shall award any contract for the purchase of goods with a cost aggregating more than ten thousand dollars in a calendar year or services with a cost aggregating more than ten thousand dollars in a calendar year, to a corporation or business trust, except a professional association organized under Chapter 1785. of the Revised Code, if any of the following has made, as an individual, within the previous twenty-four months, taking into consideration only owners for all of that period, one or more contributions totaling in excess of one thousand dollars to the holder of a public office having ultimate responsibility for the award of the contract or to the public officer’s campaign committee:
(i) An owner of more than twenty per cent of the corporation or business trust;
(ii) A spouse of an owner of more than twenty per cent of the corporation or business trust;
(iii) A child seven years of age through seventeen years of age of an owner of more than twenty per cent of the corporation or business trust.
(b) Subject to divisions (K), (L), (M), and (N) of this section, no agency or department of this state shall award any contract for the purchase of goods costing more than five hundred dollars or services costing more than five hundred dollars, and no political subdivision shall award any contract for the purchase of goods with a cost aggregating more than ten thousand dollars in a calendar year or services with a cost aggregating more than ten thousand dollars in a calendar year, to a corporation or business trust, except a professional association organized under Chapter 1785. of the Revised Code, if any combination of the following has made, within the previous twenty-four months, taking into consideration only owners for all of that period, one or more contributions totaling in excess of two thousand dollars to the holder of the public office having ultimate responsibility for the award of the contract or to the public officer’s campaign committee:
(i) Owners of more than twenty per cent of the corporation or business trust;
(ii) Spouses of owners of more than twenty per cent of the corporation or business trust;
(iii) Children seven years of age through seventeen years of age of owners of more than twenty per cent of the corporation or business trust;
(iv) Any political action committee affiliated with the corporation or business trust.
(2)(a) Subject to divisions (K), (L), (M), and (N) of this section, if any agency or department of this state has awarded a contract for the purchase of goods costing more than five hundred dollars or services costing more than five hundred dollars, or if any political subdivision has awarded a contract for the purchase of goods with a cost aggregating more than ten thousand dollars in a calendar year or services with a cost aggregating more than ten thousand dollars in a calendar year, to a corporation or business trust, except a professional association organized under Chapter 1785. of the Revised Code, none of the following shall, beginning on the date the contract is awarded and extending until one year following the conclusion of that contract, make one or more contributions totaling in excess of one thousand dollars to the holder of the public office having ultimate responsibility for the award of that contract:
(i) An owner of more than twenty per cent of the corporation or business trust;
(ii) A spouse of an owner of more than twenty per cent of the corporation or business trust;
(iii) A child seven years of age through seventeen years of age of an owner of more than twenty per cent of the corporation or business trust.
(b) Subject to divisions (K), (L), (M), and (N) of this section, if any agency or department of this state has awarded a contract for the purchase of goods costing more than five hundred dollars or services costing more than five hundred dollars, or if any political subdivision has awarded a contract for the purchase of goods with a cost aggregating more than ten thousand dollars in a calendar year or services with a cost aggregating more than ten thousand dollars in a calendar year, to a corporation or business trust, except a professional association organized under Chapter 1785. of the Revised Code, no combination of any of the following shall, beginning on the date the contract is awarded and extending until one year following the conclusion of that contract, make one or more contributions totaling in excess of two thousand dollars to the holder of the public office having ultimate responsibility for the award of that contract:
(i) Owners of more than twenty per cent of the corporation or business trust;
(ii) Spouses of owners of more than twenty per cent of the corporation or business trust;
(iii) Children seven years of age through seventeen years of age of owners of more than twenty per cent of the corporation or business trust;
(iv) Any political action committee affiliated with the corporation or business trust.
(3) Subject to divisions (L), (M), and (N) of this section, no agency or department of this state shall enter into any contract for the purchase of goods costing more than five hundred dollars or services costing more than five hundred dollars, and no political subdivision shall enter into any contract for the purchase of goods with a cost aggregating more than ten thousand dollars in a calendar year or services with a cost aggregating more than ten thousand dollars in a calendar year, with a corporation or business trust, except a professional association organized under Chapter 1785. of the Revised Code, unless the agency, department, or political subdivision has received for that calendar year, or the contract includes, a certification by the corporation or business trust that all of the following persons, if applicable, are in compliance with division (J)(1) of this section:
(a) Each owner of more than twenty per cent of the corporation or business trust;
(b) Each spouse of an owner of more than twenty per cent of the corporation or business trust;
(c) Each child seven years of age to seventeen years of age of an owner of more than twenty per cent of the corporation or business trust;
(d) Any combination of persons identified in divisions (J)(3)(a) to (c) of this section.
(4)(a) Subject to divisions (K), (L), (M), and (N) of this section, no agency or department of this state shall award any contract for the purchase of goods costing more than five hundred dollars or services costing more than five hundred dollars, and no political subdivision shall award any contract for the purchase of goods with a cost aggregating more than ten thousand dollars in a calendar year or services with a cost aggregating more than ten thousand dollars in a calendar year, to any corporation or business trust, except a professional association organized under Chapter 1785. of the Revised Code, if a political action committee that is affiliated with the corporation or business trust has made, within the previous twenty-four months, one or more contributions totaling in excess of two thousand dollars to the holder of the public office having ultimate responsibility for the award of the contract or to the public officer’s campaign committee.
(b) Subject to divisions (K), (L), (M), and (N) of this section, if any agency or department of this state has awarded any contract for the purchase of goods costing more than five hundred dollars or services costing more than five hundred dollars, or if any political subdivision has awarded a contract for the purchase of goods with a cost aggregating more than ten thousand dollars in a calendar year or services with a cost aggregating more than ten thousand dollars in a calendar year, to any corporation or business trust, except a professional association organized under Chapter 1785. of the Revised Code, no political action committee that is affiliated with the corporation or business trust shall, beginning on the date the contract is awarded and extending until one year following the conclusion of that contract, make one or more contributions totaling in excess of two thousand dollars to the holder of the public office having ultimate responsibility for the award of the contract or to the public officer’s campaign committee.
(K)(1) For purposes of divisions (I) and (J) of this section, if a public officer who is responsible for the award of a contract is appointed by the governor, whether or not the appointment is subject to the advice and consent of the senate, the office of the governor is considered to have ultimate responsibility for the award of the contract.
(2) For purposes of divisions (I) and (J) of this section, if a public officer who is responsible for the award of a contract is appointed by the elected chief executive officer of a municipal corporation, or appointed by the elected chief executive officer of a county operating under an alternative form of county government or county charter, the office of the chief executive officer is considered to have ultimate responsibility for the award of the contract.
(L)(1)(a) Collective bargaining agreements with labor organizations representing employees shall be considered to be contracts for the purchase of services for the purpose of divisions (I), (J), (Y), and (Z) of this section. The labor organization shall be the recipient of the contract and considered to be an unincorporated business for the purpose of divisions (I), (J), (Y), and (Z) of this section. For purposes of divisions (I), (J), (Y) and (Z) of this section, a political contributing entity or political action committee of the labor organization shall be subject to the same limits as applicable to an affiliated political action committee of an incorporated business.
(b) Divisions (I), (J), (Y), and (Z) of this section do not apply to employment contracts entered into with a single employee.
(c) The secretary of state shall adopt rules under Chapter 119. of the Revised Code that determine what constitutes a contract for the purchase of goods and what constitutes a contract for the purchase of services under divisions (I), (J), (Y), and (Z) of this section and section 3517.093 of the Revised Code.
(2)(a) For the purpose of divisions (I) and (Y) of this section, a political action committee is affiliated with a partnership or other unincorporated business, association, including, without limitation, a professional association organized under Chapter 1785. of the Revised Code, estate, or trust if the political action committee received, as reported on its most recent statement filed under section 3517.10 of the Revised Code, more than fifty per cent of its contributions from any combination of the persons identified in divisions (I)(1)(b)(ii) to (vi) of this section or divisions (Y)(1)(b)(ii) to (vi) of this section, respectively.
(b) For the purpose of divisions (J) and (Z) of this section, a political action committee is affiliated with a corporation or business trust, except a professional association organized under Chapter 1785. of the Revised Code, if the political action committee received, as reported on its most recent statement filed under section 3517.10 of the Revised Code, more than fifty per cent of its contributions from any combination of the persons identified in division (J)(1)(b)(i) of this section or division (Z)(1)(b)(i) of this section, respectively.
(c) A federal political committee registered with the secretary of state pursuant to section 3517.107 of the Revised Code is a political action committee affiliated with a partnership or other unincorporated business, association, including, without limitation, a professional association organized under Chapter 1785. of the Revised Code, estate, or trust or with a corporation or business trust if the federal political committee received more than fifty per cent of its contributions as specified in divisions (L)(2)(a) or (b) of this section in filings made with the federal election commission.
(M)(1) Divisions (I) and (J) of this section do not apply to contracts awarded by the board of commissioners of the sinking fund, by the supreme court or courts of appeals, by county courts consisting of more than one judge, courts of common pleas consisting of more than one judge, or municipal courts consisting of more than one judge, or by a division of any court if the division consists of more than one judge. This division shall apply to the specified entity only if the members of the entity act collectively in the award of a contract for goods or services.
(2) For the purpose of divisions (I), (J), (Y), and (Z) of this section, contracts approved by the controlling board shall be considered to be awarded solely by the agency or department that submitted the contract to the controlling board.
(N)(1) Divisions (I), (J), (Y), and (Z) of this section apply to contributions made to the holder of a public office having ultimate responsibility for the award of a contract, or to the public officer’s campaign committee, during the time the person holds the office and during any time such person was a candidate for the office. Those divisions apply to contributions made to, or to the campaign committee of, a candidate for the public office having ultimate responsibility for the award of the contract during any such time the person is a candidate for that office. For the purpose of this division, a person becomes a candidate for the public office having ultimate authority for the award of the contract when the person becomes a candidate for that office by filing a declaration of candidacy, a declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate, or a nominating petition, through party nomination at a primary election, or by the filling of a vacancy under section 3513.30 or 3513.31 of the Revised Code.
(2) Divisions (I), (J), (Y), and (Z) of this section do not apply to contributions of a partner, shareholder, administrator, executor, trustee, or owner of more than twenty per cent of a corporation or business trust made before the person held any of those positions or after the person ceased to hold any of those positions in the partnership or other unincorporated business, association, estate, trust, corporation, or business trust whose eligibility to be awarded a contract is being determined, nor to contributions of the person’s spouse made before the person held any of those positions, after the person ceased to hold any of those positions, before the two were married, after the granting of a decree of divorce, dissolution of marriage, or annulment, or after the granting of an order in an action brought solely for legal separation. Those divisions do not apply to contributions of the spouse of an individual whose eligibility to be awarded a contract is being determined made before the two were married, after the granting of a decree of divorce, dissolution of marriage, or annulment, or after the granting of an order in an action brought solely for legal separation.
(O) No beneficiary of a campaign fund or other person shall convert for personal use, and no person shall knowingly give to a beneficiary of a campaign fund or any other person, for the beneficiary’s or any other person’s personal use, anything of value from the beneficiary’s campaign fund, including, without limitation, payments to a beneficiary for services the beneficiary personally performs, except as reimbursement for any of the following:
(1) Legitimate and verifiable prior campaign expenses incurred by the beneficiary;
(2) Legitimate and verifiable ordinary and necessary prior expenses incurred by the beneficiary in connection with duties as the holder of a public office, including, without limitation, expenses incurred through participation in nonpartisan or bipartisan events if the participation of the holder of a public office would normally be expected;
(3) Legitimate and verifiable ordinary and necessary prior expenses incurred by the beneficiary while doing any of the following:
(a) Engaging in activities in support of or opposition to a candidate other than the beneficiary, political party, or ballot issue;
(b) Raising funds for a political party, political action committee, political contributing entity, legislative campaign fund, campaign committee, or other candidate;
(c) Participating in the activities of a political party, political action committee, political contributing entity, legislative campaign fund, or campaign committee;
(d) Attending a political party convention or other political meeting.
For purposes of this division, an expense is incurred whenever a beneficiary has either made payment or is obligated to make payment, as by the use of a credit card or other credit procedure or by the use of goods or services received on account.
(P) No beneficiary of a campaign fund shall knowingly accept, and no person shall knowingly give to the beneficiary of a campaign fund, reimbursement for an expense under division (O) of this section to the extent that the expense previously was reimbursed or paid from another source of funds. If an expense is reimbursed under division (O) of this section and is later paid or reimbursed, wholly or in part, from another source of funds, the beneficiary shall repay the reimbursement received under division (O) of this section to the extent of the payment made or reimbursement received from the other source.
(Q) No candidate or public official or employee shall accept for personal or business use anything of value from a political party, political action committee, political contributing entity, legislative campaign fund, or campaign committee other than the candidate’s or public official’s or employee’s own campaign committee, and no person shall knowingly give to a candidate or public official or employee anything of value from a political party, political action committee, political contributing entity, legislative campaign fund, or such a campaign committee, except for the following:
(1) Reimbursement for legitimate and verifiable ordinary and necessary prior expenses not otherwise prohibited by law incurred by the candidate or public official or employee while engaged in any legitimate activity of the political party, political action committee, political contributing entity, legislative campaign fund, or such campaign committee. Without limitation, reimbursable expenses under this division include those incurred while doing any of the following:
(a) Engaging in activities in support of or opposition to another candidate, political party, or ballot issue;
(b) Raising funds for a political party, legislative campaign fund, campaign committee, or another candidate;
(c) Attending a political party convention or other political meeting.
(2) Compensation not otherwise prohibited by law for actual and valuable personal services rendered under a written contract to the political party, political action committee, political contributing entity, legislative campaign fund, or such campaign committee for any legitimate activity of the political party, political action committee, political contributing entity, legislative campaign fund, or such campaign committee.
Reimbursable expenses under this division do not include, and it is a violation of this division for a candidate or public official or employee to accept, or for any person to knowingly give to a candidate or public official or employee from a political party, political action committee, political contributing entity, legislative campaign fund, or campaign committee other than the candidate’s or public official’s or employee’s own campaign committee, anything of value for activities primarily related to the candidate’s or public official’s or employee’s own campaign for election, except for contributions to the candidate’s or public official’s or employee’s campaign committee.
For purposes of this division, an expense is incurred whenever a candidate or public official or employee has either made payment or is obligated to make payment, as by the use of a credit card or other credit procedure, or by the use of goods or services on account.
(R)(1) Division (O) or (P) of this section does not prohibit a campaign committee from making direct advance or post payment from contributions to vendors for goods and services for which reimbursement is permitted under division (O) of this section, except that no campaign committee shall pay its candidate or other beneficiary for services personally performed by the candidate or other beneficiary.
(2) If any expense that may be reimbursed under division (O), (P), or (Q) of this section is part of other expenses that may not be paid or reimbursed, the separation of the two types of expenses for the purpose of allocating for payment or reimbursement those expenses that may be paid or reimbursed may be by any reasonable accounting method, considering all of the surrounding circumstances.
(3) For purposes of divisions (O), (P), and (Q) of this section, mileage allowance at a rate not greater than that allowed by the internal revenue service at the time the travel occurs may be paid instead of reimbursement for actual travel expenses allowable.
(S)(1) As used in division (S) of this section:
(a) “State elective office” has the same meaning as in section 3517.092 of the Revised Code.
(b) “Federal office” means a federal office as defined in the Federal Election Campaign Act.
(c) “Federal campaign committee” means a principal campaign committee or authorized committee as defined in the Federal Election Campaign Act.
(2) No person who is a candidate for state elective office and who previously sought nomination or election to a federal office shall transfer any funds or assets from that person’s federal campaign committee for nomination or election to the federal office to that person’s campaign committee as a candidate for state elective office.
(3) No campaign committee of a person who is a candidate for state elective office and who previously sought nomination or election to a federal office shall accept any funds or assets from that person’s federal campaign committee for that person’s nomination or election to the federal office.
(T)(1) Except as otherwise provided in division (B)(6)(c) of section 3517.102 of the Revised Code, a state or county political party shall not disburse moneys from any account other than a state candidate fund to make contributions to any of the following:
(a) A state candidate fund;
(b) A legislative campaign fund;
(c) A campaign committee of a candidate for the office of governor, lieutenant governor, secretary of state, auditor of state, treasurer of state, attorney general, member of the state board of education, or member of the general assembly.
(2) No state candidate fund, legislative campaign fund, or campaign committee of a candidate for any office described in division (T)(1)(c) of this section shall knowingly accept a contribution in violation of division (T)(1) of this section.
(U) No person shall fail to file a statement required under section 3517.12 of the Revised Code.
(V) No campaign committee shall fail to file a statement required under division (K)(3) of section 3517.10 of the Revised Code.
(W)(1) No foreign national shall, directly or indirectly through any other person or entity, make a contribution, expenditure, or independent expenditure or promise, either expressly or implicitly, to make a contribution, expenditure, or independent expenditure in support of or opposition to a candidate for any elective office in this state, including an office of a political party.
(2) No candidate, campaign committee, political action committee, political contributing entity, legislative campaign fund, state candidate fund, political party, or separate segregated fund shall solicit or accept a contribution, expenditure, or independent expenditure from a foreign national. The secretary of state may direct any candidate, committee, entity, fund, or party that accepts a contribution, expenditure, or independent expenditure in violation of this division to return the contribution, expenditure, or independent expenditure or, if it is not possible to return the contribution, expenditure, or independent expenditure, then to return instead the value of it, to the contributor.
(3) As used in division (W) of this section, “foreign national” has the same meaning as in section 441e(b) of the Federal Election Campaign Act.
(X)(1) No state or county political party shall transfer any moneys from its restricted fund to any account of the political party into which contributions may be made or from which contributions or expenditures may be made.
(2)(a) No state or county political party shall deposit a contribution or contributions that it receives into its restricted fund.
(b) No state or county political party shall make a contribution or an expenditure from its restricted fund.
(3)(a) No corporation or labor organization shall make a gift or gifts from the corporation’s or labor organization’s money or property aggregating more than ten thousand dollars to any one state or county political party for the party’s restricted fund in a calendar year.
(b) No state or county political party shall accept a gift or gifts for the party’s restricted fund aggregating more than ten thousand dollars from any one corporation or labor organization in a calendar year.
(4) No state or county political party shall transfer any moneys in the party’s restricted fund to any other state or county political party.
(5) No state or county political party shall knowingly fail to file a statement required under section 3517.1012 of the Revised Code.
(Y)(1)(a) Subject to divisions (L), (M)(2), and (N) of this section, the administrator of workers’ compensation and the employees of the bureau of workers’ compensation shall not conduct any business with or award any contract for the purchase of goods costing more than five hundred dollars or services costing more than five hundred dollars to any individual, partnership or other unincorporated business, association, including, without limitation, a professional association organized under Chapter 1785. of the Revised Code, estate, or trust, if any of the following has made, as an individual, within the previous twenty-four months, one or more contributions totaling in excess of one thousand dollars to the campaign committee of the governor or lieutenant governor or to the campaign committee of any candidate for the office of governor or lieutenant governor:
(i) The individual;
(ii) Any partner or owner of the partnership or other unincorporated business;
(iii) Any shareholder of the association;
(iv) Any administrator of the estate;
(v) Any executor of the estate;
(vi) Any trustee of the trust;
(vii) The spouse of any person identified in divisions (Y)(1)(a)(i) to (vi) of this section;
(viii) Any child seven years of age through seventeen years of age of any person identified in divisions (Y)(1)(a)(i) to (vi) of this section.
(b) Subject to divisions (L), (M)(2), and (N) of this section, the administrator of workers’ compensation and the employees of the bureau of workers’ compensation shall not conduct any business with or award any contract for the purchase of goods costing more than five hundred dollars or services costing more than five hundred dollars to any individual, partnership or other unincorporated business, association, including, without limitation, a professional association organized under Chapter 1785. of the Revised Code, estate, or trust if any combination of the following has made, within the previous twenty-four months, one or more contributions totaling in excess of two thousand dollars to the campaign committee of the governor or lieutenant governor or to the campaign committee of any candidate for the office of governor or lieutenant governor:
(i) The individual;
(ii) Any partner or owner of the partnership or other unincorporated business;
(iii) Any shareholder of the association;
(iv) Any administrator of the estate;
(v) Any executor of the estate;
(vi) Any trustee of the trust;
(vii) The spouse of any person identified in divisions (Y)(1)(b)(i) to (vi) of this section;
(viii) Any child seven years of age through seventeen years of age of any person identified in divisions (Y)(1)(b)(i) to (vi) of this section;
(ix) Any political action committee affiliated with the partnership or other unincorporated business, association, estate, or trust.
(2)(a) Subject to divisions (L), (M)(2), and (N) of this section, if the administrator of workers’ compensation or the employees of the bureau of workers’ compensation has awarded a contract for the purchase of goods costing more than five hundred dollars or services costing more than five hundred dollars to any individual, partnership or other unincorporated business, association, including, without limitation, a professional association organized under Chapter 1785. of the Revised Code, estate, or trust, none of the following shall, beginning on the date the contract is awarded and extending until one year following the conclusion of that contract, make one or more contributions totaling in excess of one thousand dollars to the campaign committee of the governor or lieutenant governor or to the campaign committee of any candidate for the office of governor or lieutenant governor:
(i) The individual;
(ii) Any partner or owner of the partnership or other unincorporated business;
(iii) Any shareholder of the association;
(iv) Any administrator of the estate;
(v) Any executor of the estate;
(vi) Any trustee of the trust;
(vii) The spouse of any person identified in divisions (Y)(2)(a)(i) to (vi) of this section;
(viii) Any child seven years of age through seventeen years of age of any person identified in divisions (Y)(2)(a)(i) to (vi) of this section.
(b) Subject to divisions (L), (M)(2), and (N) of this section, if the administrator of workers’ compensation or the employees of the bureau of workers’ compensation has awarded a contract for the purchase of goods costing more than five hundred dollars or services costing more than five hundred dollars to any individual, partnership or other unincorporated business, association, including, without limitation, a professional association organized under Chapter 1785. of the Revised Code, estate, or trust, no combination of any of the following shall, beginning on the date the contract is awarded and extending until one year following the conclusion of that contract, make one or more contributions totaling in excess of two thousand dollars to the campaign committee of the governor or lieutenant governor or to the campaign committee of any candidate for the office of governor or lieutenant governor:
(i) The individual;
(ii) Any partner or owner of the partnership or other unincorporated business;
(iii) Any shareholder of the association;
(iv) Any administrator of the estate;
(v) Any executor of the estate;
(vi) Any trustee of the trust;
(vii) The spouse of any person identified in divisions (Y)(2)(b)(i) to (vi) of this section;
(viii) Any child seven years of age through seventeen years of age of any person identified in divisions (Y)(2)(b)(i) to (vi) of this section;
(ix) Any political action committee affiliated with the partnership or other unincorporated business, association, estate, or trust.
(3) Subject to divisions (L), (M)(2), and (N) of this section, the administrator of workers’ compensation and the employees of the bureau of workers’ compensation shall not enter into any contract for the purchase of goods costing more than five hundred dollars or services costing more than five hundred dollars with an individual, partnership or other unincorporated business, association, including, without limitation, a professional association organized under Chapter 1785. of the Revised Code, estate, or trust unless the bureau has received for that calendar year, or the contract includes, a certification by the individual, partnership or other unincorporated business, association, estate, or trust that all of the following persons, if applicable, are in compliance with division (Y)(1) of this section:
(a) The individual;
(b) Each partner or owner of the partnership or other unincorporated business;
(c) Each shareholder of the association;
(d) Each administrator of the estate;
(e) Each executor of the estate;
(f) Each trustee of the trust;
(g) Each spouse of any person identified in divisions (Y)(3)(a) to (f) of this section;
(h) Each child seven years of age to seventeen years of age of any person identified in divisions (Y)(3)(a) to (f) of this section;
(i) Any combination of persons identified in divisions (Y)(3)(a) to (h) of this section.
(4)(a) Subject to divisions (L), (M)(2), and (N) of this section, the administrator of workers’ compensation and the employees of the bureau of workers’ compensation shall not conduct any business with or award any contract for the purchase of goods costing more than five hundred dollars or services costing more than five hundred dollars to any partnership or other unincorporated business, association, including, without limitation, a professional association organized under Chapter 1785. of the Revised Code, estate, or trust if a political action committee that is affiliated with the partnership or other unincorporated business, association, estate, or trust has made, within the previous twenty-four months, one or more contributions totaling in excess of two thousand dollars to the campaign committee of the governor or lieutenant governor or to the campaign committee of any candidate for the office of governor or lieutenant governor.
(b) Subject to divisions (L), (M)(2), and (N) of this section, if the administrator of workers’ compensation or the employees of the bureau of workers’ compensation has awarded any contract for the purchase of goods costing more than five hundred dollars or services costing more than five hundred dollars to any partnership or other unincorporated business, association, including, without limitation, a professional association organized under Chapter 1785. of the Revised Code, estate, or trust, no political action committee that is affiliated with the partnership or other unincorporated business, association, estate, or trust shall, beginning on the date the contract is awarded and extending until one year following the conclusion of that contract, make one or more contributions totaling in excess of two thousand dollars to the campaign committee of the governor or lieutenant governor or to the campaign committee of any candidate for the office of governor or lieutenant governor.
(Z)(1)(a) Subject to divisions (L), (M)(2), and (N) of this section, the administrator of workers’ compensation and the employees of the bureau of workers’ compensation shall not conduct business with or award any contract for the purchase of goods costing more than five hundred dollars or services costing more than five hundred dollars to a corporation or business trust, except a professional association organized under Chapter 1785. of the Revised Code, if any of the following has made, as an individual, within the previous twenty-four months, taking into consideration only owners for all of such period, one or more contributions totaling in excess of one thousand dollars to the campaign committee of the governor or lieutenant governor or to the campaign committee of any candidate for the office of governor or lieutenant governor:
(i) An owner of more than twenty per cent of the corporation or business trust;
(ii) A spouse of an owner of more than twenty per cent of the corporation or business trust;
(iii) A child seven years of age through seventeen years of age of an owner of more than twenty per cent of the corporation or business trust.
(b) Subject to divisions (L), (M)(2), and (N) of this section, the administrator of workers’ compensation and the employees of the bureau of workers’ compensation shall not conduct any business with or award any contract for the purchase of goods costing more than five hundred dollars or services costing more than five hundred dollars to a corporation or business trust, except a professional association organized under Chapter 1785. of the Revised Code, if any combination of the following has made, within the previous twenty-four months, taking into consideration only owners for all of that period, one or more contributions totaling in excess of two thousand dollars to the campaign committee of the governor or lieutenant governor or to the campaign committee of any candidate for the office of governor or lieutenant governor:
(i) Owners of more than twenty per cent of the corporation or business trust;
(ii) Spouses of owners of more than twenty per cent of the corporation or business trust;
(iii) Children seven years of age through seventeen years of age of owners of more than twenty per cent of the corporation or business trust;
(iv) Any political action committee affiliated with the corporation or business trust.
(2)(a) Subject to divisions (L), (M)(2), and (N) of this section, if the administrator of workers’ compensation or the employees of the bureau of workers’ compensation has awarded a contract for the purchase of goods costing more than five hundred dollars or services costing more than five hundred dollars to a corporation or business trust, except a professional association organized under Chapter 1785. of the Revised Code, none of the following shall, beginning on the date the contract is awarded and extending until one year following the conclusion of that contract, make one or more contributions totaling in excess of one thousand dollars to the campaign committee of the governor or lieutenant governor or to the campaign committee of any candidate for the office of governor or lieutenant governor:
(i) An owner of more than twenty per cent of the corporation or business trust;
(ii) A spouse of an owner of more than twenty per cent of the corporation or business trust;
(iii) A child seven years of age through seventeen years of age of an owner of more than twenty per cent of the corporation or business trust.
(b) Subject to divisions (L), (M)(2), and (N) of this section, if the administrator of workers’ compensation or the employees of the bureau of workers’ compensation has awarded a contract for the purchase of goods costing more than five hundred dollars or services costing more than five hundred dollars to a corporation or business trust, except a professional association organized under Chapter 1785. of the Revised Code, no combination of any of the following shall, beginning on the date the contract is awarded and extending until one year following the conclusion of that contract, make one or more contributions totaling in excess of two thousand dollars to the campaign committee of the governor or lieutenant governor or to the campaign committee of any candidate for the office of governor or lieutenant governor:
(i) Owners of more than twenty per cent of the corporation or business trust;
(ii) Spouses of owners of more than twenty per cent of the corporation or business trust;
(iii) Children seven years of age through seventeen years of age of owners of more than twenty per cent of the corporation or business trust;
(iv) Any political action committee affiliated with the corporation or business trust.
(3) Subject to divisions (L), (M)(2), and (N) of this section, the administrator of workers’ compensation and the employees of the bureau of workers’ compensation shall not enter into any contract for the purchase of goods costing more than five hundred dollars or services costing more than five hundred dollars with a corporation or business trust, except a professional association organized under Chapter 1785. of the Revised Code, unless the bureau has received for that calendar year, or the contract includes, a certification by the corporation or business trust that all of the following persons, if applicable, are in compliance with division (Z)(1) of this section:
(a) Each owner of more than twenty per cent of the corporation or business trust;
(b) Each spouse of an owner of more than twenty per cent of the corporation or business trust;
(c) Each child seven years of age to seventeen years of age of an owner of more than twenty per cent of the corporation or business trust;
(d) Any combination of persons identified in divisions (Z)(3)(a) to (c) of this section.
(4)(a) Subject to divisions (L), (M)(2), and (N) of this section, the administrator of workers’ compensation and the employees of the bureau of workers’ compensation shall not conduct business with or award any contract for the purchase of goods costing more than five hundred dollars or services costing more than five hundred dollars to any corporation or business trust, except a professional association organized under Chapter 1785. of the Revised Code, if a political action committee that is affiliated with the corporation or business trust has made, within the previous twenty-four months, one or more contributions totaling in excess of two thousand dollars to the campaign committee of the governor or lieutenant governor or to the campaign committee of any candidate for the office of governor or lieutenant governor.
(b) Subject to divisions (L), (M)(2), and (N) of this section, if the administrator of workers’ compensation or the employees of the bureau of workers’ compensation has awarded any contract for the purchase of goods costing more than five hundred dollars or services costing more than five hundred dollars to any corporation or business trust, except a professional association organized under Chapter 1785. of the Revised Code, no political action committee that is affiliated with the corporation or business trust shall, beginning on the date the contract is awarded and extending until one year following the conclusion of that contract, make one or more contributions totaling in excess of two thousand dollars to the campaign committee of the governor or lieutenant governor or to the campaign committee of any candidate for the office of governor or lieutenant governor.
(AA) No individual, partnership or other incorporated business, association, estate, trust, corporation, or business trust shall knowingly make a false statement on a certification required under division (I)(3), (J)(3), (Y)(3), or (Z)(3) of this section.
Effective Date: 12-22-1999; 03-31-2005; 04-26-2005; 06-30-2005; 05-02-2006; 2007 HB119 09-29-2007