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Docket No. 20-199
 
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RE:
Request that the Board waive a $320 campaign finance late fee assessed against Robert "Chris" Jordan, a candidate for Councilman, District 8, Iberia Parish, in the October 12, 2019 election, whose 10-G campaign finance disclosure reports was filed 8 days late.
Facts:
Robert C. Jordan, Jr. states the following: He was on a 14-day work hitch in far West Texas when the report came due and he filed it as soon as he returned home. Filer provided work stub from period in question.
Comments:
ELECTION: October 12, 2019
TYPES OF REPORT: 10-G
DAYS LATE: 8
ASSESSED FEE: $320
REPORTS DUE: November 6, 2019
REPORTS FILED: November 14, 2019


ACTIVITY REPORT:


10-G $-0 in Receipts; $-0 in Expenditures and $-0 Funds on Hand at 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:
Suspend all but $100 based on future compliance.
Assigned Attorney: Charles Reeves
 
 
ATTACHMENTS:
Description:
2020-199 - Staff Memo Robert _Chris_ Jordan
2020-199- Additional Information