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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. |
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| | | Sec. 3. 21-A MRSA §1014, sub-§1-A is enacted to read: |
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| | | 1-A.__Additional broadcast disclosure requirements; | | candidate, authorized political party and party committee.__In | | addition to the requirements of subsection 1, the following | | requirements apply to television and radio broadcasts | | authorized by a candidate, a candidate's authorized political | | party, a candidate's party committee or their agents in which | | the opponent of the candidate, candidate's authorized | | political committee or candidate's party committee is | | identified, either by name, voice, picture or other reference. |
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| | | A.__If the communication described in subsection 1 is | | broadcast on television, the advertisement must contain an | | unobscured, full-screen picture, either still or moving, | | of the candidate or the treasurer of the candidate's | | authorized political party or party committee accompanied | | by the following words, or words substantially similar, | | spoken by the candidate or treasurer: "I am (name of | | candidate or treasurer of candidate's authorized political | | party or party committee) and this ad was paid for by | | (name of candidate or candidate's authorized committee or | | party committee)." |
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| | | B.__If the communication described in subsection 1 is | | broadcast on radio, the advertisement must contain the | | following words, or words substantially similar, spoken by | | the candidate or treasurer of the candidate's authorized | | political party or party committee: "I am (name of | | candidate or treasurer of candidate's authorized political | | party or party committee) and this ad was paid for by | | (name of candidate or candidate's authorized committee or | | party committee)." |
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| | | Sec. 4. 21-A MRSA §1014, sub-§2, as enacted by PL 1985, c. 161, §6, | | is amended to read: |
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| | | 2. Not authorized by candidate. If the communication | | described in subsection 1 is not authorized by a candidate, a | | candidate's authorized political committee, a candidate's | | party committee or their agents, the communication must | | clearly and conspicuously state that the communication is not | | authorized by |
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