REFERENCE TITLE: registration of voters; payment; prohibition

State of Arizona House of Representatives Fifty-fourth Legislature First Regular Session 2019

HB 2616

Introduced by Representative Townsend

 

AN ACT

 

amending title 16, chapter 1, article 3, Arizona Revised Statutes, by adding section 16-132; relating to registration of electors.

 

 

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Be it enacted by the Legislature of the State of Arizona:

Section 1.  Title 16, chapter 1, article 3, Arizona Revised Statutes, is amended by adding section 16-132, to read:

START_STATUTE16-132.  Voter registration payments; prohibition; exception; violation; classification

A.  A person shall not pay or receive money or any other thing of value for registering a person to vote.  This section does not apply to an employee of a political party.

B.  A person who violates this section is guilty of a class 1 misdemeanor.END_STATUTE