Section 410-RICR-10-00-4.4 - Additional Expenditures for R.I. Gen. Laws Section 17-25-24A. Note: The regulation to be adopted by the Board of Elections ("Board") appears in § 4.4(C) of this Part beneath the specific section of the Rhode Island General Law which the Board is seeking to address with the adoption of said regulation.B. §17-25-24 Additional Expenditures - Any candidate eligible to receive public funds and electing to receive these funds whose opponent does not elect to receive public funds shall be permitted to raise additional private contributions and make additional expenditures for election purposes in an amount in excess of the candidate's maximum allowable expenditure limit equal to the amount by which the expenditures of the opponent exceed the maximum allowable expenditure limit that would have applied to the opponent's expenditures had the opponent elected to receive public funds.C. Moreover, to the extent that the candidate has not received the total amount of public funds provided for the general office sought, he or she may use private contributions received within the same election cycle to request matching public funds and make additional expenditures in an amount in excess of the candidate's maximum allowable limit equal to the amount by which the expenditures of his or her opponent exceed the maximum allowable expenditure limit that would have applied to the opponent's expenditures had the opponent elected to receive public funds.410 R.I. Code R. 410-RICR-10-00-4.4