[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 11, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 11CFR400.30]

[Page 270-271]
 
                       TITLE 11--FEDERAL ELECTIONS
 
                 CHAPTER I--FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION
 
PART 400_INCREASED LIMITS FOR CANDIDATES OPPOSING SELF-FINANCED 
CANDIDATES--Table of Contents
 
          Subpart C_Determining When the Increased Limits Apply
 
Sec.  400.30  Receipt of notification of opposing candidate's expenditures 
from personal funds.


    (a) Applicable to Senate and to House of Representatives elections. 
This section applies to elections to the office of United States 
Senator, and to the office of Representative in, or Delegate or Resident 
Commission to, the Congress.
    (b) Candidates and authorized committees. (1) The candidate and the 
candidate's authorized committee must not accept, pursuant to this part, 
any contribution that exceeds the applicable limit, as defined in 11 CFR 
400.7, until the candidate has received actual

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or constructive notification of an opposing candidate's expenditures 
from personal funds under subpart B of this part. The candidate and the 
candidate's authorized committee must calculate the opposition personal 
funds amount each time they receive an opposing candidate's notification 
of expenditures from personal funds under 11 CFR 400.21 or 400.22.
    (2) Upon calculating the opposition personal funds amount, if the 
candidate or the candidate's authorized committee determines that such 
amount exceeds the appropriate threshold under 11 CFR 400.40 or 400.41 
that permits national and State committees of political parties to make 
coordinated party expenditures that exceed the limitations set forth in 
11 CFR 109.32, the candidate or the candidate's authorized committee 
must inform the Commission and the national and State committee of their 
political party of such opposition personal funds amount by facsimile 
machine or electronic mail within 24 hours of receipt of an opposing 
candidate's initial or additional notification of expenditure from 
personal funds.
    (c) Political party committees. (1) A national or State committee of 
a political party (including a national Congressional campaign 
committee) must not make, pursuant to this part, coordinated party 
expenditures in connection with the general election campaign of a 
candidate in excess of the limits set forth in 11 CFR 109.32(b) until 
the political party committee has received actual or constructive 
notification under subpart B of this part and the opposition personal 
funds amount under paragraph (b) of this section indicating that the 
opposing candidate's expenditures from personal funds exceeds the 
applicable threshold amount set forth in 11 CFR 400.40 or 400.41.
    (2) If the national or State committee of a political party makes 
coordinated party expenditures in excess of the limitations set forth in 
11 CFR 109.32 pursuant to this part, the national or State committee of 
a political party must inform the Commission and the candidate on whose 
behalf such expenditure is made, or the candidate's authorized 
committee, of the amount of such expenditures by facsimile machine or 
electronic mail within 24 hours of making such expenditures.
    (d) Constructive notification. For purposes of this section, 
constructive notification means that the candidate, the candidate's 
authorized committee, or the national or State committee of the 
political party obtains a copy of the FEC Form 10 received by the 
Commission.