Subd. 10.

Candidate.

"Candidate" means an individual who seeks nomination or election
as a state constitutional officer, legislator, deleted text beginordeleted text end judgenew text begin, or Metropolitan Council membernew text end. An
individual is deemed to seek nomination or election if the individual has taken the action
necessary under the law of this state to qualify for nomination or election, has received
contributions or made expenditures in excess of $750, or has given implicit or explicit
consent for any other person to receive contributions or make expenditures in excess of
$750, for the purpose of bringing about the individual's nomination or election. A candidate
remains a candidate until the candidate's principal campaign committee is dissolved as
provided in section 10A.243.

Subd. 6a.

Place of filing.

A public official required to file a statement under this section
must file it with the board. A local official required to file a statement under this section
must file it with the governing body of the official's political subdivisionnew text begin, except that a
member of the Metropolitan Council must file the statement with the boardnew text end. The governing
body must maintain statements filed with it under this subdivision as public data. If an
official position is defined as both a public official and as a local official of a metropolitan
governmental unit under this chapter, the official must file the statement with the board.

Subd. 2.

Amounts.

(a) In a segment of an election cycle, the principal campaign
committee of the candidate must not make campaign expenditures nor permit approved
expenditures to be made on behalf of the candidate that result in aggregate expenditures in
excess of the following:

(1) for governor and lieutenant governor, running together, $3,817,700 in the election
segment and $1,697,400 in the nonelection segment;

(2) for attorney general, $654,600 in the election segment and $226,400 in the nonelection
segment;

(3) for secretary of state and state auditor, separately, $436,400 in the election segment
and $113,300 in the nonelection segment;

(4) for state senator, $102,800 in the election segment and $32,800 in a nonelection
segment;

(5) for state representative, $68,500 in the election segmentdeleted text begin.deleted text endnew text begin; and
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new text begin (6) for a member of the Metropolitan Council, $90,000 in the election segment and
$30,000 in the nonelection segment.
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(b) In addition to the amount in paragraph (a), clause (1), a candidate for endorsement
for the office of lieutenant governor at the convention of a political party may make campaign
expenditures and approved expenditures of five percent of that amount to seek endorsement.

(c) If a special election cycle occurs during a general election cycle, expenditures by or
on behalf of a candidate in the special election do not count as expenditures by or on behalf
of the candidate in the general election.

(d) The expenditure limits in this subdivision for an office are increased by ten percent
for a candidate who has not previously held the same office, whose name has not previously
been on the primary or general election ballot for that office, and who has not in the past
ten years raised or spent more than $750 in a run for any other office whose territory now
includes a population that is more than one-third of the population in the territory of the
new office. Candidates who qualify for first-time candidate status receive a ten percent
increase in the campaign expenditure limit in all segments of the applicable election cycle.
In the case of a legislative candidate, the office is that of a member of the house of
representatives or senate without regard to any specific district.

Subdivision 1.

Contribution limits.

(a) Except as provided in subdivision 2, a candidate
must not permit the candidate's principal campaign committee to accept aggregate
contributions made or delivered by any individual, political committee, political fund, or
association not registered with the board in excess of the following:

(1) to candidates for governor and lieutenant governor running together, $4,000 in the
election segment of an election cycle for the office sought and $2,000 in the nonelection
segment of the election cycle;

(2) to a candidate for attorney general, $2,500 in the election segment of an election
cycle for the office sought and $1,500 in the nonelection segment of the election cycle;

(3) to a candidate for secretary of state or state auditor, $2,000 in the election segment
of an election cycle and $1,000 in the nonelection segment of the election cycle;

(4) to a candidate for state senator, $1,000 in the election segment of an election cycle
for the office sought and $1,000 in a nonelection segment of the election cycle;

(5) to a candidate for state representative, $1,000 in the election segment of an election
cycle for the office sought; deleted text beginand
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(6) to a candidate for judicial office, $2,500 in the election segment of an election cycle
for the office sought and $2,500 in a nonelection segment of the election cycledeleted text begin.deleted text endnew text begin; and
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new text begin (7) to a candidate for the Metropolitan Council, $1,000 in the election segment of an
election cycle for the office sought and $1,000 in the nonelection segment of the election
cycle.
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(b) The following deliveries are not subject to the bundling limitation in this subdivision:

(1) delivery of contributions collected by a member of the candidate's principal campaign
committee, such as a block worker or a volunteer who hosts a fund-raising event, to the
committee's treasurer; and

(2) a delivery made by an individual on behalf of the individual's spouse.

(c) A lobbyist, political committee, political party unit, an association that has a political
fund, or an association not registered with the board must not make a contribution a candidate
is prohibited from accepting.