HARRY HUGHES, Governor

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notify the elected official and afford him the opportunity to be
heard. If the Board determines, after hearing, that a report or
statement required by [§§ 26-11 or 26-13(d)] § 26-ll(A) OF THIS
ARTICLE OR SUBSECTION (D) OF THIS SECTION was not timely filed,
that the official was notified pursuant to subsections (c) or
(d), and that the failure to file has not been corrected and late
filing fees have not been paid, then it shall direct the
appropriate financial officers to withhold the salary of the
elected official until the report or statement is filed and all
late fees paid and to withhold from future salary payments a sum
or sums which equal any amount previously paid to the elected
official for a period during which his report or statement was in
default.

26-16.

(a)  The following persons shall be guilty of prohibited
practices and shall be punished in accordance with the provisions
of this section:

(8) Contribution or Expenditure in Violation of §
26-8. Every person who, being a candidate, makes any payment,
contribution, expenditure or promotes or incurs any liability to
pay, contribute or expend from his own personal financial
resources any money or thing in value in [excess of that
authorized by § 26-8(c)] A MANNER NOT AUTHORIZED BY § 26-8 OF
THIS ARTICLE.

(b)  Every person who shall be guilty of any prohibited
practices described in this section shall be fined not more than
[one thousand dollars ($1,000.)] $1,000 or be imprisoned for not
more than one year, or both, and shall be ineligible for any
public or party office, for the period of four years from and
after the time of the commission of such offense.

26-17.

(a)   It is unlawful for any person, candidate, campaign
manager, treasurer or subtreasurer, partisan organization,
political committee, including political clubs, or party
committee to expend any money for printing, publication, or
broadcasting of any political matter whatsoever unless such
matter purports on its face to be a paid political advertisement
and printed, published, or broadcast by the authority of the
person, campaign manager, treasurer or subtreasurer for the named
candidate, partisan organization, party committee, or political
committee, including political clubs.

(b)  No person or corporation within the State, publishing a
newspaper or other periodical, shall charge a candidate for State
or local public office for political advertising a rate in excess
of the regular local rate regularly charged by such person or
corporation for commercial advertising except that when such
political advertising is placed with the person or corporation
through the medium of an advertising or press agency, then the