Arizona Revised Statutes

Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 16-916 (2026)

Corporation, limited liability company and labor organization contributions; separate segregated fund; limits; requirements

✓ current as of May 2026
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A. A corporation, limited liability company or labor organization shall not make contributions to a candidate committee.

B. A corporation, limited liability company or labor organization may make unlimited contributions to persons other than candidate committees.

C. A corporation, limited liability company or labor organization may sponsor a separate segregated fund. Employees, members, executives, stockholders and retirees and their families of a corporation, limited liability company or labor organization and any subsidiary or affiliate of a corporation, limited liability company or labor organization may make contributions to the separate segregated fund, subject to the following:

1. The separate segregated fund must register as a political action committee.

2. The sponsor or its affiliate may pay the administrative, personnel and fund-raising expenses of its separate segregated fund, which shall not be deemed contributions to the fund.

3. The sponsor or its separate segregated fund may solicit contributions from the sponsor's, sponsor's affiliates' or sponsor's subsidiaries' employees, members, executives, stockholders and retirees and their families. The following additional restrictions apply:

(a) With respect to an insurer, an insurer or its separate segregated fund may also solicit contributions from an insurance producer's employees, members, executives, stockholders and retirees and their families.

(b) With respect to a trade association or membership organization, the association or organization may solicit contributions from its members' employees, executives, stockholders, subsidiaries and retirees and their families.

4. A sponsor or its affiliate or a trade association or membership organization may facilitate the making of contributions to its separate segregated fund by establishing a payroll deduction system or other similar payment transfer method.

5. A sponsor, trade association, membership organization or separate segregated fund may rely on the federal election commission's written guidance interpreting 52 United States Code section 30118(b) and rules adopted under that section when interpreting this subsection, if otherwise consistent with this article and articles 1, 1.1, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6 and 1.7 of this chapter.

 

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 5 cases, 1985–2018 · leading case: City of Sierra Vista v. Sierra Vista Wards Sys. Voting Proj., 278 P.3d 297 (Ariz. Ct. App. 2012).
City of Sierra Vista v. Sierra Vista Wards Sys. Voting Proj., 278 P.3d 297 (Ariz. Ct. App. 2012). · cites it 2× “” A.R.S. § 16-916(A)(3). ¶ 11 If a political committee fails to file a finance report timely, the city clerk must send the committee a written notice of the delinquency explaining with “reasonable particularity the nature of the failure and a statement of the penalties provided…”
Leach v. reagan/clean Energy for a Healthy Arizona, 430 P.3d 1241 (Ariz. 2018). · cites it 8× “) Instead, when considered in context, the term "sponsor" in § 16-906(B) is most reasonably understood as referring to an entity sponsoring an affiliated committee as allowed by A.R.S. § 16-916(B). NextGen is not such an entity.”
1A Auto, Inc. v. Dir. of the Off. of Campaign & Political Fin., 105 N.E.3d 1175 (Mass. 2018). “074 (f) ; Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 16-916 (a) ; Ark. Const.”
City of Sierra Vista v. Sierra Vista Wards Sys. Voting Proj. (Ariz. Ct. App. 2012). · cites it 2× “” A.R.S. § 16-916(A)(3). ¶11 If a political committee fails to file a finance report timely, the city clerk must send the committee a written notice of the delinquency explaining with “reasonable particularity the nature of the failure and a statement of the penalties provided…”
Arizona Socialist Workers Campaign Comm. v. Donna Culbertson, 756 F.2d 1439 (9th Cir. 1985). “§ 16-907, “These statements shall be preserved by the officer with whom filed and shall be subject to inspection and publication,” and A.R.S. § 16-916, “The statements in this article required to be filed shall be filed in the office of the secretary of state for candidates for…”
— Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 16-916(A)(3) — 2 cases
City of Sierra Vista v. Sierra Vista Wards Sys. Voting Proj., 278 P.3d 297 (Ariz. Ct. App. 2012). “” A.R.S. § 16-916(A)(3). ¶ 11 If a political committee fails to file a finance report timely, the city clerk must send the committee a written notice of the delinquency explaining with “reasonable particularity the nature of the failure and a statement of the penalties provided…”
City of Sierra Vista v. Sierra Vista Wards Sys. Voting Proj. (Ariz. Ct. App. 2012). “” A.R.S. § 16-916(A)(3). ¶11 If a political committee fails to file a finance report timely, the city clerk must send the committee a written notice of the delinquency explaining with “reasonable particularity the nature of the failure and a statement of the penalties provided…”
— Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 16-916(B) — 1 case
Leach v. reagan/clean Energy for a Healthy Arizona, 430 P.3d 1241 (Ariz. 2018). “) Instead, when considered in context, the term "sponsor" in § 16-906(B) is most reasonably understood as referring to an entity sponsoring an affiliated committee as allowed by A.R.S. § 16-916(B). NextGen is not such an entity.”
— Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 16-916(C)(1) — 1 case
Leach v. reagan/clean Energy for a Healthy Arizona, 430 P.3d 1241 (Ariz. 2018). “) Instead, when considered in context, the term "sponsor" in § 16-906(B) is most reasonably understood as referring to an entity sponsoring an affiliated committee as allowed by A.R.S. § 16-916(B). NextGen is not such an entity.”
— Ariz. Rev. Stat. § 16-916(C)(5) — 1 case
Leach v. reagan/clean Energy for a Healthy Arizona, 430 P.3d 1241 (Ariz. 2018). “) Instead, when considered in context, the term "sponsor" in § 16-906(B) is most reasonably understood as referring to an entity sponsoring an affiliated committee as allowed by A.R.S. § 16-916(B). NextGen is not such an entity.”
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