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Agenda Item
Docket No. 19-279
 
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RE:
Request that the Board reconsider waiving the $760 campaign finance late fee assessed against Corey R. Arbourgh, a candidate for Member of Parish Council, District 3, Plaquemines Parish, in the November 6, 2018 election, whose 10-G campaign finance disclosure report was filed 19 days late.
Facts:
Corey R. Arbourgh states that in 2014 he had someone advising him on how and when to file reports. This year he took care of all this himself and did not understand that he needed to file the 10-G Campaign Finance Disclosure Report after each election when he had won in the primary. He mistakenly believed that he had filed all necessary reports. He is sorry for the misunderstanding and will certainly not make this mistake again.

Comments:
ELECTION: November 6, 2018
TYPES OF REPORT: 10-G
DAYS LATE: 19
ASSESSED FEE: $760
REPORTS DUE: November 28, 2018
REPORTS FILED: December 17, 2018

ACTIVITY REPORT: $1,375 Receipts; $3,289.35 Expenditures; $3,506.76 Funds on Hand at the Close of Reporting Period.


OTHER LATE FILINGS: NONE



Law:
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.

Recommendations:
Affirm prior decision to decline to waive.
Assigned Attorney: Jennifer Land
 
 
ATTACHMENTS:
Description:
2019-279 Waiver Request
2019-279 Request for Reconsideration