| Request that the Board waive a $1,000 campaign finance late fee assessed against Virgie C. LeMaire, a candidate for Chief of Police, Town of Gueydan, Vermilion Parish, in the November 6, 2018 election, whose 10-G campaign finance disclosure report was filed 69 days late. |
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Virgie C. Lemaire states that she completed and filed all of the required reports and made several calls to ensure that she was completing the correct reports. She was in the primary election but was not in the general election. She stated if she inadvertently missed a filing, she was not aware of this. She states that she received notification about amendments that needed be to file, which she filed, but nothing to notify her that she had not filed. She states she is on a fixed income from Municipal Retirement and Social Security and cannot afford any fines assessed for these reports.
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ELECTION: November 6, 2018
TYPES OF REPORT: 10-G
DAYS LATE: 69
ASSESSED FEE: $1,000
REPORTS DUE: November 28, 2018
REPORTS FILED: February 5, 2019
ACTIVITY REPORT: $-0- Receipts; $410 Expenditures; $137 Funds on Hand at the Close of Reporting Period.
OTHER LATE FILINGS: NONE
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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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| Assigned Attorney: |
Jennifer Land |
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