§ Ethics Rule 2.67Loans to Candidate Committees by Candidate and Other NonFinancial Entities

(A) A loan by any person other than a commercial financial
institution to a candidate committee shall be considered a
contribution from the lender, guarantor or endorser in the amount of
the balance of the loan that has not been repaid.
(B) A candidate may make a loan to his or her candidate
committee from his or her personal funds or from joint funds of the
candidate and the candidate's spouse. If a candidate makes such a
loan to his or her candidate committee, the terms of the loan must be
in writing in a document executed contemporaneously with the transfer
of funds into the candidate committee's account. The document must
be signed and dated by all parties involved. Such a loan may be
repaid from contributions received by the candidate committee, but
the candidate committee shall not be permitted to pay any interest on
the loan.
(C) If a candidate transfers his or her personal funds or joint
funds of the candidate and the candidate's spouse to the candidate
committee without a written loan document, the candidate committee
cannot repay the candidate for the transfer.
(D) A candidate who makes expenditures from personal funds or
joint funds of the candidate and the candidate's spouse that are not
transferred to the candidate committee's account shall not have made
a loan to the committee. Such expenditures that are not intended to
be reimbursed shall be reported as contributions to and expenditures
by the candidate committee, or as in-kind contribution to the
candidate committee. Expenditures that are intended to be reimbursed
must be reported as in-kind expenditures on the report covering the
time period during which the expenditure was made and be reimbursed
within ninety (90) days of the expenditure.