11 CFR § 100.79 - Unreimbursed payment for transportation and subsistence expenses.

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title: "11 CFR § 100.79 - Unreimbursed payment for transportation and subsistence expenses."
title_number: 11
title_name: "Federal Elections"
section_number: "100.79"
section_name: "Unreimbursed payment for transportation and subsistence expenses."
chapter_name: "FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION"
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part_name: "SCOPE AND DEFINITIONS (52 U.S.C. 30101)"
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authority: "52 U.S.C. 30101, 30102(g), 30104, 30111(a)(8), and 30114(c)."
regulatory_source: "45 FR 15094, Mar. 7, 1980, unless otherwise noted."
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# 100.79 Unreimbursed payment for transportation and subsistence expenses.

(a) *Transportation expenses.* Any unreimbursed payment for transportation expenses incurred by any individual on behalf of any candidate or any political committee of a political party is not a contribution to the extent that:

(1) The aggregate value of the payments made by such individual on behalf of a candidate does not exceed $1,000 with respect to a single election; and

(2) The aggregate value of the payments made by such individual on behalf of all political committees of each political party does not exceed $2,000 in a calendar year.

(b) *Subsistence expenses.* Any unreimbursed payment from a volunteer's personal funds for usual and normal subsistence expenses incidental to volunteer activity is not a contribution.