Ohio Administrative Code|Rule 111:2-3-07 | Solicitation of contributions for a particular candidate prohibited; administrative expenses which may and may not be paid by a connected corporation.

                                                
(A) A corporation, nonprofit corporation,
		  or labor organization may not solicit contributions to its Ohio PAC or FSL PAC
		  for a particular Ohio state or local candidate or a political party. However,
		  an Ohio PAC or FSL PAC may permit their contributors to voluntarily earmark
		  their contributions for any particular candidate, political action committee,
		  political contributing entity, legislative campaign fund, or political party of
		  their choice.
(B) Except as provided in paragraph (D)
		  of this rule, expenses associated with activities of an Ohio PAC or FSL PAC,
		  which aid Ohio state or local candidates, any legislative campaign fund, or any
		  political party, are not administrative expenses under section 3517.082 of the
		  Revised Code, and a corporation including a nonprofit corporation may not use
		  its money or property for such activities. Such activities include, but are not
		  limited to, the following:
(1) Nonmonetary (in-kind)
			 contributions to Ohio state or local candidates, political parties, and
			 legislative campaign funds;
(2) Receptions or other social events for
			 state or local candidates, political parties, and legislative campaign funds;
			 and
(C) An Ohio corporate PAC or FSL
		  corporate PAC may conduct the activities specified in paragraphs (B)(1) and
		  (B)(2) of this rule if the PAC pays all associated expenses from its political
		  action committee or separate segregated fund established under section 3517.082
		  of the Revised Code.
(D) A corporation, nonprofit corporation,
		  or labor organization may use its money and property for the following
		  activities of its Ohio PAC or FSL PAC in connection with Ohio state or local
		  elections, but only if such activities are designed so as not to aid any
		  particular candidate or political party:
(1) Voter registration
			 and get-out-the-vote activities;
(2) Candidate debates and
			 other functions at which candidates are permitted to address or meet voters,
			 but only if each candidate for the same office is offered the same opportunity
			 to appear and speak at such function. No effort may be made at such functions
			 to express support for a candidate or to solicit contributions for a
			 candidate;
(3) Printed material
			 intended to educate voters as to the qualifications, records, and positions of
			 candidates consisting of questions directed to all candidates for the same
			 office and their verbatim responses to such questions, provided that the number
			 of words per response may be limited at the time the questions are
			 sent.


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