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Agenda Item
Docket No. 20-189
 
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RE:
Request that the Board waive a $1,000 campaign finance late fee assessed against Wilfred "PJ" Allridge, III, in his capacity as a candidate for Council Member, District 2, Terrebonne Parish, in the October 12, 2019 election, whose 10-P campaign finance disclosure report was filed 39 days late.
Facts:
Wilfred Allridge, III states the following:

He would like to dispute the late fee because of financial difficulties he had during the time it was due and currently having with his family.

Comments:
ELECTION: October 12, 2019
TYPES OF REPORT: 30-P
DAYS LATE: 39
ASSESSED FEE: $1,000
REPORTS DUE: September 12, 2019
REPORTS FILED: September 23, 2019


ACTIVITY REPORT: Candidate's Affidavit in Lieu of Report

$2,300 Receipts; $2,307 Expenditures; $3 Funds on Hand at the Close of Reporting Period.

OTHER LATE FILINGS: 10-P--$1,000 (not paid); 10-G--$1,000 (not paid); 40-G--$1,000 (not paid)

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: Charles Reeves
 
 
ATTACHMENTS:
Description:
2020-189 - Staff Memo Wilfred _PJ_ Allridge, III