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Request that the Board waive a $400 campaign finance late fee assessed against Arthur Lee, a candidate for Mayor / City of Tallulah, Madison Parish, in the March 24, 2018 election, whose 2018 Supplemental campaign finance disclosure report was filed 17 days late. |
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Arthur Lee states that he is a part-time on-call employee of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as a Reservist Disaster worker. He states that the notice was mailed while he was on a deployment in North Carolina. His mail was being collected by a neighbor who didn't recognize the significance of the report, so when he went on a break in late February 28- March 8, 2019, it was then that he received a certified letter notifying him that because his report was late and that he was being assessed a penalty of $40.00 per day. He states he immediately completed the late report upon receipt (March 4, 2019) at home.
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ELECTION: November 6, 2018
TYPES OF REPORT: 2018 Suppl
DAYS LATE: 17
ASSESSED FEE: $400
REPORTS DUE: February 15, 2019
REPORTS FILED: March 4, 2019
ACTIVITY REPORT: $-0 Receipts; $-0 Expenditures; $-0 Funds on Hand at the Close of Reporting Period.
OTHER LATE FILINGS: ONE
Election: 5/3/2014 SPEC (7 days late) $280 - Suspended - To be reassessed $280
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18:1505.4.A(1) Any candidate, the treasurer or chairman of a political committee, or any other person required to file any reports under this Chapter, who knowingly fails to file or who knowingly fails to timely file any such reports as are required by this Chapter may be assessed a civil penalty for each day until such report is filed.
18:1495.4D(1) If the final report of a candidate for an election, as required by Paragraph (5), (6), or (7)of Subsection B of this Section, shows a deficit or a surplus, the candidate and his treasurer, if any, shall file supplemental reports with the supervisory committee of all information required in R.S. 18:1495.5. Such reports shall be filed annually no later than February fifteenth and shall be complete through the preceding December thirty-first. Such a supplemental report shall be filed each year until a report has been filed which shows no deficit and until any surplus campaign funds have been disposed of in accordance with R.S. 18:1505.2(I). The report on surplus funds shall disclose the disbursement of such funds in the same manner as expenditures are reported.
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Suspend all based on future compliance. Do not reassess the $280 late fee for the Special report that was previously suspended based on future compliance.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Jennifer Land |
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