| Request that the Board waive a $700 campaign finance late fee assessed against Karen S. Kovach, a candidate for District Judge, 22nd Judicial District Court, Division F, St. Tammany Parish, in the October 12, 2019, whose 10-G campaign finance disclosure report was filed 7 days late. |
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Karen S. Kovach states the following:
She is a first time candidate. She inadvertently filed the wrong form. However, she didn't attempt to evade her obligations as she did timely file the information, but on the incorrect form. She has resolved the issue and filed the appropriate report.
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ELECTION: March 30, 2019
TYPES OF REPORT: 10-G
DAYS LATE: 7
ASSESSED FEE: $700
REPORTS DUE: November 6, 2019
REPORTS FILED: November 13, 2019
ACTIVITY REPORT: $3,000 Receipts; $9,968.12 Expenditures; $12,671.73 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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