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Agenda Item
Docket No. 21-370
 
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RE:
Request that the Board waive a $800 campaign finance late fee assessed against Kevin Williams, a candidate for Constable, Justice of the Peace Ward J, St. Bernard Parish, in the November 3, 2020 election, whose 30-P campaign finance disclosure report was filed 20 days late.
Facts:
Kevin Williams requests a waiver and states the following:

He was having multiple medical issues at the time the report was due.

Comments:
ELECTION: November 3, 2020
TYPES OF REPORT: 30-P
DAYS LATE: 20
ASSESSED FEE: $800
REPORTS DUE: October 5, 2020
REPORTS FILED: October 25, 2020


ACTIVITY REPORT:$10,936.65 Receipts; $9,996.65 Expenditures; $ -0 Funds on Hand at the Close of Reporting Period.


OTHER LATE FILINGS: ONE- PAID




40-G (8 days late) - $320


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:
Suspend all but $100 based on future compliance.
Assigned Attorney: Charles Reeves
 
 
ATTACHMENTS:
Description:
2021-370 - CF Waiver Request Kevin Williams