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Article 93
 

(Prohibition of Unlawful Distribution or Posting, etc. of Documents and Pictures)


(1) No one shall distribute, post, scatter, play, or run an advertisement, letter of greeting, poster, photograph, document, drawing, printed matter, recording tape, video tape, or the like which contains the contents supporting, recommending or opposing a political party (including the
preparatory committee for formation of a political party, and the platform and policy of a political party; hereafter the same shall apply in this Article) or candidate (including a person who intends to be a candidate; hereafter the same shall apply in this Article) or showing the name of the political party or candidate with the intention of influencing the election, not in accordance with the provisions of this Act, from 180 days before the election day (the time when the reason for holding the election becomes final, in case of a special election) to the election day: Provided, That the same shall not apply to acts falling under any of the following subparagraphs:


<Amended by Act No. 5412, Nov. 14, 1997; Act No. 5537, Apr. 30, 1998; Act No. 6663, Mar. 7, 2002; Act No. 7189, Mar. 12, 2004; Act No. 7681, Aug. 4, 2005; Act No. 9974, Jan. 25, 2010>


1. Cases where any candidate or any person falling under any of the subparagraphs of Article 60-3 (2) (including the chief of an election
campaign liaison office, in cases falling under subparagraph 2, and, in such cases, "preliminary candidates" shall be deemed "candidates") personally hands out the name cards of a candidate under Article 60-3 (1) 2 during the election campaign period;


2. Ordinary political party activities under Article 37 (2) of the Political Parties Act during a period, other than the election period.


(2) No one may advertise works, entertainments, drama, motion pictures, photographs and other Articles showing the name of a political party or
candidate by means which are not prescribed in this Act from 90 days prior to the election day to the election day, and a candidate may not appear in the advertisements by broadcast, newspaper, magazine and others: Provided, That this shall not apply to ordinary advertisements for the sale of newspapers under subparagraph 1 of Article 2 of the Act on the Promotion of Newspapers, etc. and periodicals under Article 2 of the Act on Promotion of Periodicals, Including Magazines during a period other than the election period.


<Amended by Act No. 5537, Apr. 30, 1998; Act No. 7681, Aug. 4, 2005; Act No. 9974, Jan. 25, 2010>


(3) No one shall issue, distribute or demand, or have others do so, an identification card, document and other printed matter to or of the residents in the constituency in order to induce or promise them to carry out an election campaign.


<Newly Inserted by Act No. 5127, Dec. 30, 1995>