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Agenda Item
Docket No. 21-040
 
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RE:
Request that the Board waive a $320 campaign finance late fee assessed against Tamara L. Jones, a candidate for Justice of the Peace, Ward J, St. Bernard Parish, in the November 3, 2020 election, whose 30-P campaign finance disclosure report was filed 8 days late.
Facts:


Tamara L. Jones submitted a waiver and states the following:


She initially faxed the report in the late evening of October 4, 2020 from her office fax after the normal closing hours. Since it was so late in the evening she assumed that the fax had properly gone through and did not realize she didn't get the normal confirmation report. She has been having a problem with this fax machine. She got extremely busy with her campaign and the operation of her office's day to day operations, that she overlooked not receiving the confirmation of her October 5, 2020 fax. Days later by October 12, 2020, she re-faxed the 30-P Campaign Finance Disclosure Report.

Comments:
ELECTION: November 3, 2020
TYPES OF REPORT: 30-P
DAYS LATE: 8
ASSESSED FEE: $320
REPORTS DUE: October 5, 2020
REPORTS FILED: October 13, 2020


ACTIVITY REPORT:$3,015.44 Receipts; $2,857.53 Expenditures; $158.31 Funds on Hand at the Close of Reporting Period.


OTHER LATE FILINGS: TWO- PAID


11/4/2014 EDE-P (6 days late) - $240


11/4/2014 40-G (7 days late) - $400 - Reassessed


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:
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2021-040 - CF Waiver Request Tamara L. Jones