§ 82031

Amended by Stats. 2009, Ch. 363, Sec. 2. (AB 9) Effective January 1, 2010.

“Independent expenditure” means an expenditure made by any person, including a payment of public moneys by a state or local governmental agency, in connection with a communication which expressly advocates the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate or the qualification, passage or defeat of a clearly identified measure, or taken as a whole and in context, unambiguously urges a particular result in an election but

which is not made to or at the behest of the affected candidate or committee.

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