[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 11, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2009]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 11CFR114.7]

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                       TITLE 11--FEDERAL ELECTIONS
 
                 CHAPTER I--FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION
 
PART 114_CORPORATE AND LABOR ORGANIZATION ACTIVITY--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 114.7  Membership organizations, cooperatives, or corporations 
without capital stock.

    (a) Membership organizations, cooperatives, or corporations without 
capital stock, or separate segregated funds established by such persons 
may solicit contributions to the fund from members and executive or 
administrative personnel, and their families, of the organization, 
cooperative, or corporation without capital stock.
    (b) Nothing in this section waives the prohibition on contributions 
to the

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separate segregated fund by corporations, national banks, or labor 
organizations which are members of a membership organization, 
cooperative, or corporation without capital stock.
    (c) A trade association whose membership is made up in whole or in 
part of corporations is subject to the provisions of Sec. 114.8 when 
soliciting any stockholders or executive or administrative personnel of 
member corporations. A trade association which is a membership 
organization may solicit its noncorporate members under the provisions 
of this section.
    (d) The question of whether a professional organization is a 
corporation is determined by the law of the State in which the 
professional organization exists.
    (e) There is no limitation upon the number of times an organization 
under this section may solicit its members and executive or 
administrative personnel, and their families.
    (f) There is no limitation under this section on the method of 
solicitation or the method of facilitating the making of voluntary 
contributions which may be used.
    (g) A membership organization, cooperative, or corporation without 
capital stock and the separate segregated funds of the organizations are 
subject to the provisions in Sec. 114.5(a).
    (h) A membership organization, cooperative, or corporation without 
capital stock may communicate with its members and executive or 
administrative personnel, and their families, under the provisions of 
Sec. 114.3.
    (i) A mutual life insurance company may solicit its policyholders if 
the policyholders are members within the organizational structure.
    (j) A membership organization, including a trade association, 
cooperative, or corporation without capital stock or a separate 
segregated fund established by such organization may not solicit 
contributions from the separate segregated funds established by its 
members. The separate segregated fund established by a membership 
organization, including a trade association, cooperative, or corporation 
without capital stock may, however, accept unsolicited contributions 
from the separate segregated funds established by its members.
    (k)(1) A federated cooperative as defined in the Agricultural 
Marketing Act of 1929, 12 U.S.C. 1141j, or a rural cooperative eligible 
for assistance under chapter 31 or title 7 of the United States Code, 
may solicit the members of the cooperative's regional, state or local 
affiliates, provided that all of the political committees established, 
financed, maintained or controlled by the cooperative and its regional, 
State or local affiliates are considered one political committee for the 
purposes of the limitations in 11 CFR 110.1 and 110.2.
    (2) A cooperative as described in paragraph (k)(1) of this section 
may make communications to its members under the provisions of 11 CFR 
114.3.

(2 U.S.C. 441b, 437d(a)(8))

[41 FR 35955, Aug. 25, 1976, as amended at 48 FR 50508, Nov. 2, 1983; 58 
FR 45775, Aug. 30, 1993]