[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: 11CFR100.137] [Page 77] TITLE 11--FEDERAL ELECTIONS CHAPTER I--FEDERAL ELECTION COMMISSION PART 100_SCOPE AND DEFINITIONS (2 U.S.C. 431)--Table of Contents Subpart E_Exceptions to Expenditures Sec. 100.137 Invitations, food, and beverages. The cost of invitations, food, and beverages is not an expenditure where such items are voluntarily provided by an individual in rendering voluntary personal services on the individual's residential premises or in a church or community room as specified at 11 CFR 100.106 and 100.107 to a candidate for candidate-related activity or to a political committee of a political party for party-related activity, to the extent that: The aggregate value of such invitations, food and beverages provided by the individual on behalf of the candidate does not exceed $1,000 with respect to any single election; and on behalf of all political committees of each political party does not exceed $2,000 in any calendar year. [[Page 78]]