§ 12-8. Payment or offers of payment to candidates for elective office prohibited.

(a)

It shall be unlawful for any person to give, offer or promise to any candidate for any elective public office in this County or any of its municipalities anything of value for the purpose of influencing him to withdraw as a candidate for such elective public office, or for the purpose of influencing anyone to file as a candidate for public office.

(b)

It shall be unlawful for any person to solicit or receive a gift, offer, or promise of anything of value in exchange for his withdrawing or filing as a candidate for any elective public office in this county or any of its municipalities.

(c)

Every person who is convicted of a violation of this section shall be punished by a fine not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00) or by imprisonment in the County Jail not more than sixty (60) days, or by both such fine and imprisonment.

(Ord. No. 72-98, §§ 1—3, 12-19-72)

Editor's note

Ord. No. 72-98 provided that said ordinance be included in this Code, but did not specify the manner thereof, hence inclusion of §§ 1—3 herein as § 12-8 was at the discretion of the editors. This ordinance has been treated as superseding Ord. No. 72-81, adopted Nov. 21, 1972, formerly codified as § 2-11.02.