Los Angeles Municipal Code

SEC. 49.7.19. OFFICEHOLDER COMMITTEES.

port or oppose a ballot measure or a candidate for elective office. 2. Membership in an athletic, social, fraternal, veteran, or religious organization. 3. Supplemental compensation for City employees for performing an act required or expected of the employee in the regular course of City duties. 4. Expenditures that would violate Article 3 or 4 of Chapter 9.5 of Title 9 of the Government Code. F. A person may not make, and an elected City officer or officeholder committee may not solicit or accept or cause to be solicited or accepted, a contribution to the officeholder committee from another person that, during a fiscal year, causes cumulative contributions from that person to exceed the per-person City campaign contribution limit that applies to the elected City officer’s elected City office under Section 49.7.3 B.2.a. or Section 49.7.3 B.2.b. 1. If the per-person City campaign contribution limit increases under Section 49.7.3, the new limit applies to contributions to the officeholder committee during that fiscal year. 2. This Subsection does not prohibit an elected City officer from obtaining a personal loan of any amount and duration from a licensed financial lending institution in the regular course of business on the same terms available to members of the public. G. The following limitations apply to City Council members and their officeholder committees. 1. A City Council member and a City Council member’s officeholder committee may not solicit or accept or cause to be solicited or accepted a contribution from another person that would cause either of the following to exceed $93,000 at any time during a fiscal year: a. The amount of contributions from all persons to the officeholder committee; or b. The total outstanding balance of the officeholder committee’s funds. 2. Funds other than public matching funds that remain in another City campaign or officeholder committee controlled by a City Council member may be transferred into the City Council member’s officeholder committee. The amount of funds transferred shall not exceed $93,000 per fiscal year and shall reduce by an equal amount the contributions that may be solicited by or accepted for the officeholder committee during that fiscal year. 3. The officeholder committee may not make or incur expenditures that cumulatively exceed $93,000 in a fiscal year. 4.