| Request that the Board waive a $600 campaign finance late fee assessed against Eliana Olivier DeFrancesch, a candidate for St. John the Baptist Parish Clerk of Court, in the October 12, 2019 election, whose Special campaign finance disclosure report was not filed. |
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Eliana Olivier DeFrancesch requests a waiver and states the following:
She had someone else file the reports for her; which she thought was done timely. She has filed the report that forgave her loan of personal funds to the campaign and will no longer be running for this position.
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ELECTION: October 12, 2019
TYPES OF REPORT: SPECIAL
ASSESSED FEE: $600
REPORTS DUE: October 2, 2019
REPORTS FILED: Identified on the 10-G
ACTIVITY REPORT: 9/29/2019 Personal Loan Received for $5,924
OTHER LATE FILINGS: THREE
Election: 10/23/1999 2009 SUPP (13 days late) -$300- Waived
10/4/2003 2005 SUPP (50 days late) - $600- Paid
10/4/2008 2009 SUPP (13 days late) - $600 - Waived
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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: |
Kathleen Allen |
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