| Request that the Board waive a $720 campaign finance late fee assessed against Glenn Lazard, a candidate for City Council Member, District 5, City of Lafayette in the October 12, 2019 election, whose 30-P campaign finance disclosure report was filed 18 days late. |
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Glenn Lazard requests a waiver and states the following:
He was hospitalized for a serious medical condition on September 6, 2019 and remained in the hospital for approximately a week. He then underwent numerous tests before being diagnosed with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia. He was then admitted to the Tulane Cancer Center Bone Marrow Transplant Unit on September 27, 2019.
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ELECTION: October 12, 2019
TYPES OF REPORT: 30-P
DAYS LATE: 18
ASSESSED FEE: $720
REPORTS DUE: September 12, 2019
REPORTS FILED: September 30, 2019
ACTIVITY REPORT: $1,350.00 in Receipts; $1,228.42 in Expenditures; $121.58 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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Rescind the late fee pursuant to Rule 1205B.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Kathleen Allen |
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