Campaign Donations
We appreciate your contributions.
Please make checks payable to: Jacques Roy For Mayor
Send to:
Jacques Roy For Mayor
1100 M.L.King Drive
Alexandria, LA 71301
Campaign contributions are limited to $2500 per person / per entity
Please do not send cash.
Contribution Limits (R.S. 18:1505.2 H, K)
Contribution, in-kind contribution, loans, endorsements or guarantees on loans and transfers of funds are all counted towards the contribution limits.
Exception:
(1) A candidate’s personal funds are not subject to the limits.
(2) Loans obtained by the candidate made in the ordinary course of business, on a basis which assures repayment, at the usual and customary interest rate from a state bank, a federally chartered depository institution, a depository institution with insured accounts, a licensed lender or an insurance company do not count towards the limits. However, a loan from such an institution shall be considered a “loan” by each endorser or guarantor in the proportion of their liability, and the endorsement or guarantee is subject to the contribution limit.
The contribution limits are detailed in the following chart:
|
To a major office candidate or candidate committee per election |
To a district office candidate or candidate committee per election1 |
To an any other candidate or candidate committee per election1 |
To a PAC between 1/1/07 and 12/31/10 |
$5,000 |
$2,500 |
$1,000 |
$100,000 |
|
Family Member of Candidate may give |
$5,000 |
$2,500 |
$1,000 |
$100,000 |
Legal Entity may give 4 |
$5,000 |
$2,500 |
$1,000 |
$100,000 |
PAC may give5 |
$5,000 |
$2,500 |
$1,000 |
$5,000/2,500/1,000 |
$10,000 |
$5,000 |
$2,000 |
$10,000/5,000/2,000 |
|
Democratic or Republican Party or committees may give |
No limits |
No limits |
No limits |
No limits |
1 The primary and general elections are considered as two separate elections
2 A husband and wife may each make contributions to the same candidate up to the limit. However, separate checks should be used. If a single check is signed by one spouse, the other must provided an affidavit as to their intent to share in the contribution.
3 Structuring of contributions between and among various legal entities (“bundling”) when the total contributions exceed the limit may be unlawful
4 Includes legal entities owned wholly or partially by candidates, except Internal Revenue Code Subchapter S corporations and limited liability companies wholly owned by the candidate. Parent corporations and their subsidiaries are subject to a single limit. A corporation is a parent if it owns 50% of another corporation.
5 Candidates are also subject to an aggregate limit on the contributions they may accept from all PACs combined for both the primary and general elections. Those limits are: $80,000 – major office; $60,000 – district office; $20,000 – any other office
6 A PAC with over 250 members who contributed over $50 to the PAC during the preceding calendar year and has been certified by the Ethics Administration as meeting that membership requirement.