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Agenda Item
Docket No. 19-627
 
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RE:
Request that the Board waive the $2,000 campaign finance late fee assessed against William Spencer, Jr., a candidate for State Representative, 18th Representative District, in the February 23, 2019 election, whose 30-P campaign finance disclosure report was filed 69 days late.
Facts:
William Spencer, Jr., states that he is a first time candidate and he didn't received any donations.

Comments:
ELECTION: February 23, 2019
TYPES OF REPORT: 30-P
DAYS LATE: 69
ASSESSED FEE: $2,000
REPORTS DUE: January 24, 2019
REPORTS FILED: April 3, 2019


ACTIVITY REPORT: $3,000 Receipts(Personal funds); $3,000 Expenditures; $-0 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:
Decline to waive.
Assigned Attorney: Jennifer Land
 
 
ATTACHMENTS:
Description:
2019-627 Waiver Request