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Agenda Item
Docket No. 20-547
 
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RE:
Request that the Board waive a $360 campaign finance late fee assessed against Kipp Knight, a candidate for Council Member, District 1, Iberville Parish in the October 12, 2019 election, whose 10-G campaign finance disclosure report was filed 9 days late.
Facts:
Kipp Knight request a waiver and states the following:


He has been in contact with the Board of Ethics several times. He submitted the report on 10/22/2019, but was told that the report had something wrong on it. On November 15, 2019, he came into the office and an agent assisted him with correcting the report.

Comments:
ELECTION: October 12, 2019
TYPES OF REPORT: 10-G
DAYS LATE: 9
ASSESSED FEE: $360
REPORTS DUE: November 06, 2019
REPORTS FILED: November 15, 2019

ACTIVITY REPORT: $842.36 Receipts; $538.00 Expenditures; $254.00 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: Charles Reeves
 
 
ATTACHMENTS:
Description:
2020-547 - CF Waiver Request Kipp Knight