§ 14-206. Use of public matching funds; qualified campaign
expenditures. 1. Public matching funds provided pursuant to this title
may be used only by an authorized committee for expenditures to further
the participating candidate's nomination for election or election,
including paying for debts incurred within one year prior to an election
to further the participating candidate's nomination for election or
election.

2. Such public matching funds may not be used for:

(a) an expenditure in violation of any law;

(b) an expenditure in excess of the fair market value of services,
materials, facilities, or other things of value received in exchange;

(c) an expenditure made after the candidate has been finally
disqualified from the ballot;

(d) an expenditure made after the only remaining opponent of the
candidate has been finally disqualified from the general or special
election ballot;

(e) an expenditure made by cash payment;

(f) a contribution or loan or transfer made to or expenditure to
support another candidate or political committee or party committee or
constituted committee;

(g) an expenditure to support or oppose a candidate for an office
other than that which the participating candidate seeks;

(h) gifts, except brochures, buttons, signs, tee shirts and other
printed campaign material;

(i) legal fees to defend against a criminal charge;

(j) any expenditure made to challenge the validity of any petition of
designation or nomination or any certificate of nomination, acceptance,
authorization, declination, or substitution;

(k) payments made to the candidate or a spouse, domestic partner,
child, grandchild, parent, grandparent, brother or sister of the
candidate or spouse or domestic partner of such child, grandchild,
parent, grandparent, brother or sister, or to a business entity in which
the candidate or any such person has a ten percent or greater ownership
interest;

(l) an expenditure made primarily for the purpose of expressly
advocating a vote for or against a ballot proposal, other than
expenditures made also to further the participating candidate's
nomination for election or election;

(m) payment of any settlement, penalty or fine imposed pursuant to
federal, state or local law;

(n) payments made through advances, except in the case of individual
purchases less than two hundred fifty dollars; or

(o) expenditures to facilitate, support, or otherwise assist in the
execution or performance of the duties of public office.