N.J. Admin. Code § 19:25-15.27

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 11, June 3, 2024

Section 19:25-15.27 - Expenditure reporting; travel expenses

(a) Each expenditure from the depository account, matching fund account, or public funds account established by a gubernatorial candidate shall be reported on election fund reports and on submissions for public matching funds by providing the following information:

1. The date the expenditure was made;

2. The checking account title and number;

3. The full name and address of the payee;

4. The purpose of the expenditure;

5. The amount of the expenditure; and

6. The type of expenditure.

(b) In describing the purpose of an expenditure pursuant to (a)4 above, the specific election-related reason for the expenditure shall be provided. Descriptions such as "operations," "campaign expense" or "reimbursement" do not satisfy the reporting requirement because they do not provide any specific election-related information. Examples of satisfactory descriptions include such information as "newspaper advertising," "telephone expense," "postage," "printing of campaign flyers," "headquarters rental" and similarly specific items.

(c) "The traveling expenses of the candidates" as used in 19:25-15.2 6, shall mean the reasonable and necessary expenses of transportation, food and lodging in connection with travel related to the candidacies of the candidates, and shall include expenses of the candidates and of members of the political campaign staff and immediate family of the candidates traveling with the candidates in the same or accompanying vehicles. The phrase does not include travel expenses of members of the candidates' staff when they are traveling not in the company of the candidates, nor does it include expenses of members of the media or others who are not members of the staff, whether or not those media members are accompanying the candidates.

(d) All of the expenditures, including those excluded from the expenditure limitation contained at N.J.S.A. 19:44A-7, must be disclosed in the preelection and postelection reports and on all submissions for matching funds.

(e) If any individual, including a candidate, uses a government-owned or government-leased vehicle for transportation to aid or promote a campaign for election to the offices of Governor and of Lieutenant Governor, such use shall:

1. Be reported as a travel expense pursuant to this section;

2. Be valued for purposes of reports required to be filed under the Act and for purposes of the expenditure limit contained in the Act (19:44A-7 ) by the reasonable commercial value of the transportation services to the candidate pursuant to 19:25-15.3 1; and

3. Be reimbursed immediately from campaign funds to the appropriate government entity providing the conveyance or vehicle.

N.J. Admin. Code § 19:25-15.27

Amended by R.1984 d.561, effective 12/17/1984.
See: 16 N.J.R. 2765(a), 16 N.J.R. 3485(b).
Amended by R.1993 d.207, effective 5/17/1993.
See: 25 N.J.R. 910(a), 25 N.J.R. 1994(a).
Added new (c).
Amended by R.1996 d.583, effective 12/16/1996.
See: 28 N.J.R. 4395(b), 28 N.J.R. 5199(a).
Inserted new (a) and (b) and recodified existing (a) through (c) as (c) through (e).
Amended by R.2012 d.172, effective 10/15/2012.
See: 44 N.J.R. 1593(a), 44 N.J.R. 2380(a).
In (c), substituted "candidates" for "candidate" throughout, "candidacies" for "candidacy" and "candidates' " for "candidate's"; in the introductory paragraph of (d), substituted "postelection" for "post-election" and "candidates" for "candidate"; and in the introductory paragraph of (e), substituted "offices of Governor and of Lieutenant Governor" for "Office of Governor".

Amended by 52 N.J.R. 2190(a), effective 12/21/2020