§ 14-100. Definitions. As used in this article: 1. "political\ncommittee" means any corporation aiding or promoting and any committee,\npolitical club or combination of one or more persons operating or\nco-operating to aid or to promote the success or defeat of a political\nparty or principle, or of any ballot proposal; or to aid or take part in\nthe election or defeat of a candidate for public office or to aid or\ntake part in the election or defeat of a candidate for nomination at a\nprimary election or convention, including all proceedings prior to such\nprimary election, or of a candidate for any party position voted for at\na primary election, or to aid or defeat the nomination by petition of an\nindependent candidate for public office; but nothing in this article\nshall apply to any committee or organization for the discussion or\nadvancement of political questions or principles without connection with\nany vote or to a national committee organized for the election of\npresidential or vice-presidential candidates; provided, however, that a\nperson or corporation making a contribution or contributions to a\ncandidate or a political committee which has filed pursuant to section\n14-118 shall not, by that fact alone, be deemed to be a political\ncommittee as herein defined.\n 2. "party committee" means any committee provided for in the rules of\nthe political party in accordance with section two-one hundred of this\nchapter, other than a constituted committee.\n 3. "constituted committee" means a state committee, a county committee\nor a duly constituted subcommittee of a county committee;\n 4. "duly constituted subcommittee of a county committee" means,\noutside the city of New York, a city, town or village committee, and,\nwithin the city of New York, an assembly district committee, which\nconsists of all county committee members from the city, town, village or\nassembly district, as the case may be, and only such members;\n 5. "non-candidate expenditures" means expenditures made by a party\ncommittee or a constituted committee to maintain a permanent\nheadquarters and staff and carry on ordinary party activities not\npromoting the candidacy of specific candidates;\n 6. "district" means the entire state or any part thereof, as the case\nmay be;\n 7. "candidate" means an individual who seeks nomination for election,\nor election, to any public office or party position to be voted for at a\nprimary, general or special or New York city community school district\nelection or election for trustee of the Long Island Power Authority,\nwhether or not the public office or party position has been specifically\nidentified at such time and whether or not such individual is nominated\nor elected, and, for purposes of this subdivision, an individual shall\nbe deemed to seek nomination for election, or election, to an office or\nposition, if he has (1) taken the action necessary to qualify himself\nfor nomination for election, or election, or (2) received contributions\nor made expenditures, given his consent for any other person to receive\ncontributions or make expenditures, with a view to bringing about his\nnomination for election, or election, to any office or position at any\ntime whether in the year in which such contributions or expenditures are\nmade or at any other time; and\n 8. "legislative leader" means any of the following: the speaker of the\nassembly; the minority leader of the assembly; the temporary president\nof the senate and the minority leader of the senate.\n 9. "contribution" means:\n (1) any gift, subscription, outstanding loan (to the extent provided\nfor in section 14-114 of this chapter), advance, or deposit of money or\nany thing of value, made in connection with the nomination for election,\nor election, of any candidate, or made to promote the success or defeat\nof a political party or principle, or of any ballot proposal,\n (2) any funds received by a political committee from another political\n
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