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Agenda Item
Docket No. 21-182
 
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RE:
Request that the Board waive the $400 campaign finance late fee assessed Marian Jacobs Gonzales, a candidate for Member of School Board, District 1, Avoyelles Parish, in the November 6, 2018 election, whose 40-G campaign finance disclosure report was filed 14 days late.
Facts:


Marian Jacobs Gonzales requests a waiver and states the following:

This is his first election. He apologizes for not following up on the submission of the 40-G Campaign Finance Disclosure Report. He is aware it was his responsibility and is asking for a waiver of the late fees.



Comments:
ELECTION: November 6, 2018
TYPES OF REPORT: 40-G
DAYS LATE: 14
ASSESSED FEE: $400
REPORTS DUE: January 17, 2019
REPORTS FILED: January 31, 2019


ACTIVITY REPORT: $-0 in Receipts; $-0 in Expenditures; $-0
Funds on Hand at the Close of Reporting Period.


OTHER LATE FILINGS: ONE


10-G (9 days late) - $360 (Suspended all except $100)- PAID

Reassessed $260


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:
2021-182 - CF Waiver Request Marian Jacobs Gonzales 40-G