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Agenda Item
Docket No. 20-327
 
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RE:
Request that the Board waive a $420 campaign finance late fee assessed against Rene Williams, a candidate for Clerk of Court, East Carroll Parish, in the October 12, 2019, whose 10-G campaign finance disclosure report was filed 7 days late.
Facts:
Rene Williams requests a waiver and states the following:

This is her very first time ever running for political office. After winning and submitting the prior report, she was extremely exhausted and honestly thought that was it. She never looked back at the paperwork received as part of her packet. Once she received the letter stating the report was due, she immediately took care of it. She filed all other reports timely.

Comments:
ELECTION: October 12, 2019
TYPES OF REPORT: 10-G
DAYS LATE: 7
ELECTION: October 12, 2019

REPORT: 10-G


ASSESSED FEE: $420

REPORTS DUE: November 6, 2019
REPORTS FILED: November 13, 2019

ACTIVITY REPORT: $450 Receipts; $2,872.70 Expenditures; $10715.66 Funds on Hand at the Close of Reporting Period.

OTHER LATE FILINGS: NONE

Law:
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.

Recommendations:
Decline to waive.


Assigned Attorney: Kathleen Allen
 
 
ATTACHMENTS:
Description:
80-086 Campaign Finance Waiver Request