| Request that the Board waive a $300 campaign finance late fee assessed against Chris Tidwell, a candidate for Assessor, Sabine Parish, in the October 12, 2019 election, whose 30-P campaign finance disclosure report was filed 5 days late. |
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Chris Tidwell states the following:
Upon qualifying he received his packet of paperwork and began filling it out. He took the electronic filing affidavit to his attorney to get it notarized and placed it in the mail before the due date. On September 11, 2019, he called the Ethics office because he had not received his log-in information and it was due the following day. He was told that they were working on it diligently and would be sending it out. He waited and on September 16, 2019 he called the Ethics office again and spoke to the IT department, after some investigating, it was determined it was not received. Ethics staff e-mailed him the paperwork, had it notarized and scanned it back to Ethics. On September 17, 2019, he received his log-in information and completed the report.
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ELECTION: October 12, 2019
TYPES OF REPORT: 30-P
DAYS LATE: 5
ASSESSED FEE: $300
REPORTS DUE: September 12, 2019
REPORTS FILED: September 17, 2019
ACTIVITY REPORT: $10,503.99 in Receipts; $10,065.45 in Expenditures; $-0 Funds on Hand at 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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