[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 11, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 11CFR9032.9]

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                       TITLE 11--FEDERAL ELECTIONS
 
                 CHAPTER I--FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION
 
PART 9032_DEFINITIONS--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  9032.9  Qualified campaign expense.

    (a) Qualified campaign expense means a purchase, payment, 
distribution, loan, advance, deposit, or gift of money or anything of 
value--
    (1) Incurred by or on behalf of a candidate or his or her authorized 
committees from the date the individual becomes a candidate through the 
last day of the candidate's eligibility as determined under 11 CFR 
9033.5;
    (2) Made in connection with his or her campaign for nomination; and
    (3) Neither the incurrence nor payment of which constitutes a 
violation of any law of the United States or of any law of any State in 
which the expense is incurred or paid, or of any regulation prescribed 
under such law of the United States or of any State, except that any 
State law which has been preempted by the Federal Election Campaign Act 
of 1971, as amended, will not be considered a State law for purposes of 
this subchapter.
    (b) An expenditure is made on behalf of a candidate, including a 
Vice Presidential candidate, if it is made by--
    (1) An authorized committee or any other agent of the candidate for 
purposes of making an expenditure;

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    (2) Any person authorized or requested by the candidate, an 
authorized committee of the candidate, or an agent of the candidate to 
make the expenditure; or
    (3) A committee which has been requested by the candidate, by an 
authorized committee of the candidate, or by an agent of the candidate 
to make the expenditure, even though such committee is not authorized in 
writing.
    (c) Except as provided in 11 CFR 9034.4(e), expenditures incurred 
either prior to the date the individual becomes a candidate or after the 
last day of a candidate's eligibility will be considered qualified 
campaign expenses if they meet the provisions of 11 CFR 9034.4(a). 
Expenditures described under 11 CFR 9034.4(b) will not be considered 
qualified campaign expenses.

[56 FR 35929, July 29, 1991, as amended at 60 FR 31880, June 16, 1995; 
68 FR 47418, Aug. 8, 2003]