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Agenda Item
Docket No. 20-332
 
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RE:
Request that the Board waive a $360 campaign finance late fee assessed against Clarence Williams, a candidate for Council Member, District 2, Terrebonne Parish, in the October 12, 2019, whose 10-G campaign finance disclosure report was filed 9 days late.
Facts:
Clarence Williams filed a waiver request and stated:

He didn't seek legal counsel in regards to the law regarding compliance and is on a fixed income and he would endure hardship if he had to pay the assessed fee.


Comments:
ELECTION: October 12, 2019
TYPES OF REPORT: 10-G
DAYS LATE: 9
ASSESSED FEE: $360
REPORTS DUE: November 6, 2019
REPORTS FILED: November 15, 2020


ACTIVITY REPORT: 10-G: $1,583.54 Receipts; $1,583.54 Expenditures and $113.41 Funds on Hand at the Close of the Reporting Period


OTHER LATE FILINGS: TWO-PAID


10/22/2011 Election: 30-P (7 days late)-$420

EDE-P (2 days late)-$120

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 based on future compliance.
Assigned Attorney: Charles Reeves
 
 
ATTACHMENTS:
Description:
2020-332 - Staff Memo Waiver Request Clarence Williams 10-G