Form of government Chapter II
2-5     CAMPAIGN SPENDING
     2-5.1     Limitations on Campaign Spending in City Preliminary Elections and City Elections.
     a.     Limitation on Monies Expended for Political Campaign. No person being a candidate for the office of Mayor, City Councillor at Large, or School Committeeman, at any regular or special election or preliminary election, and no person acting with his leave or authority, or without such leave or authority, including but not limited to, the Treasurer or Chairman of a non-elected political committee, shall expend, cause to be expended, allow to be expended, or suffer to be expended, in the municipal year of such election, any monies in furtherance of the campaign of such a candidate, for whatever purpose, by any person, in excess of the amounts hereinafter set out, which shall be the aggregate of expenditures by all persons, under whatever color or guise, in furtherance of that campaign;

     The Office of Mayor: two hundred thousand ($200,000.00) dollars;

     The Office of City Councillor at Large: twenty thousand ($20,000.00) dollars;

     The Office of School Committeeman: twenty thousand ($20,000.00) dollars.

     b.     Monies Spent in Excess; Fine Established. Every dollar expended in excess of the above limitations shall be deemed to be a separate offense, and each offense shall be punished by a fine of two ($2.00) dollars.

     For the purposes of this ordinance, the incurring of a liability for goods and services in furtherance of such a campaign shall be deemed to be an expenditure of monies equal to the amount of such liability, and it shall be deemed to have been expended on the date the liability was incurred.

     c.     Effective Date. The provisions of subsection 2-12.3 to the contrary notwithstanding, this ordinance shall be published by the action of the City Council in adopting the same, and shall take effect on the first Monday in January of the year 1976.

     d.     Severability. The provisions hereof are severable and the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction invalidating or impairing the validity of any part or portion hereof shall not be deemed to affect the validity of any remaining part or portion of this ordinance.

(Ord. 1975 c. 11; CBC 1975 Ord. T2 § 204)