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Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

 
Sec. 1. 21-A MRSA §1014, sub-§1, as amended by PL 1991, c. 839, §8,
is further amended to read:

 
1. Authorized by candidate. Whenever a person makes an
expenditure to finance a communication expressly advocating
the election or defeat of a clearly identified candidate
through broadcasting stations, newspapers, magazines, outdoor
advertising facilities, direct mails or other similar types of
general public political advertising or through flyers,
handbills, bumper stickers and other nonperiodical
publications, the communication, if authorized by a candidate,
a candidate's authorized political committee or their agents,
must clearly and conspicuously state that the communication
has been so authorized and must clearly state the name and
address of the person who made or financed the expenditure for
the communication. The following forms of political
communication do not require the name and address of the
person who made or authorized the expenditure for the
communication because the name or address would be so small as
to be illegible or infeasible: ashtrays, badges and badge
holders, balloons, campaign buttons, clothing, coasters,
combs, emery boards, envelopes, erasers, glasses, key rings,
letter openers, matchbooks, nail files, noisemakers, paper and
plastic cups, pencils, pens, plastic tableware, 12-inch or
shorter rulers, swizzle sticks, tickets to fund-raisers and
similar items determined by the commission to be too small and
unnecessary for the disclosures required by this section. In
an election in which there is no candidate who is not
certified under chapter 14, a person other than a candidate or
a candidate's authorized political committee may not make a
communication by mail for or against a candidate.

 
Sec. 2. 21-A MRSA §1014, sub-§2, as enacted by PL 1985, c. 161, §6,
is amended to read:

 
2. Not authorized by candidate. If the communication
described in subsection 1 is not authorized by a candidate, a
candidate's authorized political committee or their agents,
the communication must clearly and conspicuously state that
the communication is not authorized by any candidate and state
the name and address of the person who made or financed the
expenditure for the communication. In an election in which
there is no candidate who is not certified under chapter 14, a
person other than a candidate or a candidate's authorized
political committee may not make a communication by mail for
or against a candidate.

 
Sec. 3. 21-A MRSA §1019, sub-§4 is enacted to read:


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