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Ethics Board Docket No. 2022-444 <br /> Page 5 of 9 <br /> (3)(a) defines "candidate" to mean a person who seeks nomination or election to <br /> public office, except the office of president or vice president of the United States, <br /> presidential elector, delegate to a political party convention, United States senator, <br /> United States congressman, or political party office. <br /> (6)(a) defines "contribution" to mean a gift, conveyance, payment, or deposit of <br /> money or anything of value, or the forgiveness of a loan or of a debt, made for the <br /> purpose of supporting, opposing, or otherwise influencing the nomination or <br /> election of a person to public office, for the purpose of supporting or opposing a <br /> proposition or question submitted to the voters, or for the purpose of supporting or <br /> opposing the recall of a public officer, whether made before or after the election. <br /> (14)(a)(i) defines "political committee" to mean two or more persons, other than a <br /> husband and wife, and any legal entity organized for the primary purpose of <br /> supporting or opposing one or more candidates, propositions, recalls of a public <br /> officer, or political parties, which accepts contributions in the name of the <br /> committee, or makes expenditures from committee funds or in the name of the <br /> committee, or makes a transfer of funds to or receives a transfer of funds from <br /> another committee, or receives or makes loans in an aggregate amount in excess of <br /> five hundred dollars within any calendar year. <br /> 14. <br /> The following provisions proscribe the penalties that may assessed if a violation of the <br /> CFDA has occurred: <br /> §1505.2. Contributions; expenditures, certain prohibitions and limitations <br /> J.(1) Any candidate, treasurer, or chairman of a political committee who violates <br /> any provision of Subsection H or I of this Section shall be assessed a penalty of not <br /> more than five thousand dollars or the amount of the violation,whichever is greater, <br /> except that the penalty for a knowing and willful violation shall not be more than <br /> ten thousand dollars or two hundred percent of the violation, whichever is greater. <br /> "Knowing and willful",for purposes of this Subsection,means conduct which could <br /> have been avoided through the exercise of due diligence. The civil penalties <br /> provided for in R.S. 18:1505.5 shall be inapplicable to violations of Subsection H <br /> or I. Enforcement of Subsections H and I shall be in the same manner provided for <br /> in Part VI of this Chapter. <br /> §1505.4. Civil penalties; failure to file; timely and accurate filing; forfeiture <br />