Campaign Expenses

1. Campaign expenses shall be defined as all costs, including sales taxes, incurred during the election involving any candidate, slate, or sponsor, including all costs, at fair market value, of all materials used in campaigning or whose purchase was necessary for campaigning (no pro rating of material costs are allowed).

2. Campaign Expense Limits
   1. Candidates for the Senate may spend up to $90on their election.

   2. Slates for the Council of Presidents may spend up to $300on their election plus an additional $60if a run-off election must be held.

   3. Candidates for the Student Conduct Legislative Council may spend up to $72on their election.

   4. Slates for Senior Class Presidents may spend up to $120on their election.

   5. The use of other campaign materials will be supervised by the Hearings Officer.

   6. The expense limits detailed in this section shall be adjusted each year by a relative amount equal to the percentage change in the Consumer Price Index during the calendar year immediately preceding the general election. (cf. Article V.1.B.2 of the Constitution)

3. Organizations and associations of students shall not campaign for any candidate or slate without the written approval of that candidate or slate. All campaign materials used in such campaigning shall be charged, at full value, to the campaign of that candidate or slate.

4. Any publicity produced for the benefit of two or more candidates or slates shall be charged at full value to the campaigns of each of those candidates or slates.

5. For the purposes of this section, ``at full value'' shall mean that the full value of the campaign materials shall be charged to each of the relevant campaigns.

6. The Commission may waive specific expenses from these campaign expense limits if they are incurred in the promotion of general election activity, but all such waivers must be in writing and be made before the expense is incurred.

7. No candidate or slate shall exceed their campaign expense limit. Failure to obey this provision shall be grounds for disqualification.