512.4.1. The application for authorization must be accompanied with a document indicating in detail any publicity expense made by the private intervenor in relation to the election for which the private intervenor applies for the authorization, and the name and address of any person who provided more than $100 and the amount so provided.
For the purposes of the first paragraph, “publicity expense” means any expense made during the period beginning on 1 January of the current year and ending on the day on which the notice of election is published, the purpose of which is the broadcasting by a radio or television station or by a cable distribution enterprise, the publishing in a newspaper or other periodical or the posting in a space leased for that purpose of publicity relating to an election.
In the case of an expense made for property or a service used both before and during the period mentioned in the second paragraph, the portion of its cost that is a publicity expense within the meaning of that paragraph shall be determined according to a formula based on the frequency of use during that period in relation to such frequency before and during that period.