limitation of expenditures

limitation of expenditures Sec. 402. (a) (1) No principal campaign committee shall expand any funds which when aggregated with funds expended by it, all other committees required to report to it, and by a candidate supported by such committee shall exceed (1) in the case of a candidate for Mayor, $200,000 in the aggregate for any primary and general election in connection therewith, but in no event in excess of $120,000 for one of such elections and $80,000 for the other of such elections; (2) in the case of a candidate for Chairman of the Council, $150,000 in the aggregate for any primary and general election in connection therewith, but in no event in excess of $90,000 for one of such elections and $60,000 for the other of such elections; (3) in the case of a candidate for member of the Council elected at large, $100,000 in the aggregate for any primary and general election in connection therewith, but in no event in excess of $60,000 for one of such elections and $40,000 for the other of such elections; (4) in the case of a candidate for member of the Board of Education elected at large or member of the Council elected from a ward, $20,000 in the aggregate for any primary and general election in connection therewith, but in no event in excess of $12,000 for one of such elections and $8,000 for the other of such elections; (5) in the case of a candidate for member of the Board of Education elected from a ward, or in support of any candidate for office of a political party, $10,000 in the aggregate for any primary and general election in connection therewith, but in no event in excess of $6,000 for one of such elections and $4,000 for the other of such elections; and (6) in the case of a candidate for member of an Advisory Neighborhood Council, $500. (2) At the beginning of each calendar year (commencing in 1976), as there become available necessary data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor, the Secretary of Labor shall certify to the Board and the Board shall publish in the District of Columbia Register the per centum difference between the price index for the twelve months preceding the beginning of such calendar year and the price index for 1974. Each amount determined under paragraph (1) shall be changed by such per centum difference. Each amount so changed shall be the amount in effect for such calendar year. (b) No political committee or candidate shall knowingly expend any funds at a time when the principal campaign committee to which it shall report, or which has been designated by him, is precluded by sub-88 Stat. 462section (a) from expending funds or which would cause such principal committee to be precluded from further expenditures. Any principal campaign committee of a candidate having reasonable knowledge to believe that further expenditures by a political committee registered in support of such candidate, or by the candidate it supports, will exceed the expenditure limitations specified in subsection (a) shall immediately notify, in writing, such political committee or candidate of that fact. (c) Any expenditure made in connection with a campaign in a calendar year other than the calendar year in which the election is held to which that campaign relates is, for the purposes of this section, considered to be made during the calendar year in which that election is held.