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Home » US Law » 2022 California Code » Elections Code - ELEC » DIVISION 18 - PENAL PROVISIONS » CHAPTER 7 - Initiative, Referendum, and Recall » ARTICLE 3 - Improper Payments to Prevent Petition Circulation and Filing

Section 18620.

18620. Every person who seeks, solicits, bargains for, or obtains any money, thing of value, or advantage of or from any person, firm, or corporation for the purpose or represented purpose of fraudulently inducing, persuading, or seeking the proponent or proponents of any initiative or referendum measure or recall petition to (a) abandon the measure […]

Section 18621.

18621. Any proponent of an initiative or referendum measure or recall petition who seeks, solicits, bargains for, or obtains any money or thing of value of or from any person, firm, or corporation for the purpose of abandoning the same or stopping the circulation of petitions concerning the same, or failing or neglecting or refusing […]

Section 18622.

18622. Every person who offers to buy or does buy from a circulator any referendum, initiative, or recall petition on which one or more persons have affixed their signatures is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for not more than one year, or by a fine not exceeding one thousand […]