[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 11, Volume 1]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 11CFR114.7]



[Page 224-225]

 

                       TITLE 11--FEDERAL ELECTIONS

 

                 CHAPTER I--FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION

 

PART 114_CORPORATE AND LABOR ORGANIZATION ACTIVITY--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 114.7  Membership organizations, cooperatives, or corporations 

without capital stock.



    (a) Membership organizations, cooperatives, or corporations without 

capital stock, or separate segregated funds established by such persons 

may solicit contributions to the fund from members and executive or 

administrative personnel, and their families, of the organization, 

cooperative, or corporation without capital stock.

    (b) Nothing in this section waives the prohibition on contributions 

to the separate segregated fund by corporations, national banks, or 

labor organizations which are members of a membership organization, 

cooperative, or corporation without capital stock.

    (c) A trade association whose membership is made up in whole or in 

part of corporations is subject to the provisions of Sec. 114.8 when 

soliciting any stockholders or executive or administrative personnel of 

member corporations. A trade association which is a membership 

organization may solicit its noncorporate members under the provisions 

of this section.

    (d) The question of whether a professional organization is a 

corporation is determined by the law of the State in which the 

professional organization exists.

    (e) There is no limitation upon the number of times an organization 

under this section may solicit its members and executive or 

administrative personnel, and their families.

    (f) There is no limitation under this section on the method of 

solicitation or the method of facilitating the making of voluntary 

contributions which may be used.

    (g) A membership organization, cooperative, or corporation without 

capital stock and the separate segregated funds of the organizations are 

subject to the provisions in Sec. 114.5(a).



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    (h) A membership organization, cooperative, or corporation without 

capital stock may communicate with its members and executive or 

administrative personnel, and their families, under the provisions of 

Sec. 114.3.

    (i) A mutual life insurance company may solicit its policyholders if 

the policyholders are members within the organizational structure.

    (j) A membership organization, including a trade association, 

cooperative, or corporation without capital stock or a separate 

segregated fund established by such organization may not solicit 

contributions from the separate segregated funds established by its 

members. The separate segregated fund established by a membership 

organization, including a trade association, cooperative, or corporation 

without capital stock may, however, accept unsolicited contributions 

from the separate segregated funds established by its members.

    (k)(1) A federated cooperative as defined in the Agricultural 

Marketing Act of 1929, 12 U.S.C. 1141j, or a rural cooperative eligible 

for assistance under chapter 31 or title 7 of the United States Code, 

may solicit the members of the cooperative's regional, state or local 

affiliates, provided that all of the political committees established, 

financed, maintained or controlled by the cooperative and its regional, 

State or local affiliates are considered one political committee for the 

purposes of the limitations in 11 CFR 110.1 and 110.2.

    (2) A cooperative as described in paragraph (k)(1) of this section 

may make communications to its members under the provisions of 11 CFR 

114.3.



(2 U.S.C. 441b, 437d(a)(8))



[41 FR 35955, Aug. 25, 1976, as amended at 48 FR 50508, Nov. 2, 1983; 58 

FR 45775, Aug. 30, 1993]