| Request that the Board waive a $280 campaign finance late fee assessed against Stephen Black, a candidate for Constable, Justice of the Peace District 5, St. Charles Parish, in the November 3, 2020 election, whose 30-P campaign finance disclosure report was filed 7 days late. |
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Stephen Black requests a waiver and states the following:
He was unopposed and believed that he did not need to fill out a report. He said that he spoke with someone in our office and told him that if he did not have any contributions and was elected unopposed that he would only need to file an annual report. He said that when he received the notice of delinquency on October 12, 2020, he spoke to another person in our office and was told that the information he received was incorrect and that he is in fact required to file the 30-P. He said that he is asking for the waiver because COVID has devastated him financially.
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ELECTION: November 3, 2020
TYPES OF REPORT: 30-P
DAYS LATE: 7
ASSESSED FEE: $280
REPORTS DUE: October 5, 2020
REPORTS FILED: October 12, 2020
ACTIVITY REPORT:$-0 Receipts; $51.00 Expenditures; $16.63 Funds on Hand at the Close of Reporting Period.
OTHER LATE FILINGS: ONE- PAID
10/4/2008 2009 SUPP (26 days late)Reduced- $100
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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.
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Reduce to $120; decline to waive.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Charles Reeves |
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