§ 169.254Contributions, expenditures, or volunteer personal services by corporation, joint

stock company, domestic dependent sovereign, or labor organization; contribution to
 ballot question committee or independent expenditure committee; independent
 expenditures as to ballot questions; violation; penalty.
 Sec. 54.
    (1) Except as otherwise provided in this section and section 55, and except with respect to
 loans made in the ordinary course of business, a corporation, joint stock company, domestic
 dependent sovereign, or labor organization shall not make a contribution or expenditure or
 provide volunteer personal services that are excluded from the definition of a contribution
 under section 4(3)(a).
    (2) An officer, director, stockholder, attorney, agent, or any other person acting for a labor
 organization, a domestic dependent sovereign, or a corporation or joint stock company,
 whether incorporated under the laws of this or any other state or foreign country, except
 corporations formed for political purposes, shall not make a contribution or expenditure or
 provide volunteer personal services that are excluded from the definition of a contribution
 under section 4(3)(a).
    (3) A corporation, joint stock company, domestic dependent sovereign, or labor organization
 may make a contribution to a ballot question committee or independent expenditure committee
 subject to this act. A corporation, joint stock company, domestic dependent sovereign, or labor
 organization may make an independent expenditure in any amount advocating for the election
 or defeat of a candidate, or the qualification, passage, or defeat of a ballot question and does
 not for this reason become a committee, unless it solicits or receives contributions in excess of
 $500.00 for the purpose of making the independent expenditure, but is subject to the
 independent expenditure reporting requirements under section 51.




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   (4) A person that knowingly violates this section is guilty of a felony punishable, if the
 person is an individual, by imprisonment for not more than 3 years or a fine of not more than
 $5,000.00, or both, or, if the person is not an individual, by a fine of not more than $10,000.00.