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Agenda Item
Docket No. 20-640
 
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RE:
Request that the Board waive a $1,000 campaign finance late fee assessed against Maurice "Scooter" Keen, a candidate for Councilman, District 3, Livingston Parish, in the October 12, 2019 election, whose10-G campaign finance disclosure report was filed 104 days late.
Facts:
Maurice Keen requests a waiver and states the following:
He has a receipt from the US Post Office showing that he mailed a report timely the Board's address.

Comments:
ELECTION: October 12, 2019
TYPES OF REPORT: 10-G
DAYS LATE: 104
ASSESSED FEE: $1,000
REPORT DUE: November 6, 2019
REPORT FILED: February 18, 2020


ACTIVITY REPORT: $1,000.00 in Receipts; $3,956.50 in Expenditures; $-0Funds on Hand at Close of Reporting Period

OTHER LATE FILINGS: TWO - PAID


10/24/2015 30-P (1 days late) -$40

10-G (4 days late)- $160


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:
2020-640 - CF Waiver Request Maurice _Scooter_ Keen 10-G