Signature collection; prohibited payments; violation; classification
Applied in 4 court decisions — leading case Jaime a Molera v. Katie Hobbs (2020)
Most recently applied in 99 Arizona Cases Digest 8 - Az Petition Partners LLC v. Hon. thompson/state (June 2023)
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
A. A person shall not pay or receive money or any other thing of value based on the number of signatures collected on a statewide initiative or referendum petition. Signatures that are obtained by a paid circulator who violates this section are void and shall not be counted in determining the legal sufficiency of the petition.
B. A violation of this section is a class 1 misdemeanor.
Official source: Arizona State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Arizona statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.