| Request that the Board waive a $2,000 campaign finance late fee assessed against LA Families First, a political action committee, its committee's chairperson, James Hartman, and treasurer, James Marchbanks in the November 3, 2020 election, whose 10-G campaign finance disclosure reports was filed 14 days late. |
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James Marchbanks, PAC Treasurer requests a waiver and states the following:
The PAC has never received a late fee and the report had no receipts or expenditures. He was exposed to Covid 19 on 11/6/20 and was quarantined and then exposed and quarantined again on 11/23/2020. That delayed the filing of the report. He is requesting that the fine be waived or suspended.
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ELECTION: November 3, 2020
TYPES OF REPORT: 10-G
DAYS LATE: 14
ASSESSED FEE: $2,000
REPORTS DUE: November 25, 2020
REPORTS FILED: December 9, 2020
ACTIVITY REPORT: $-0 in Receipts; $-0 in Expenditures and $2,200.00 Funds on Hand at Close of Reporting Period
OTHER LATE FILINGS: NONE
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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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| Assigned Attorney: |
Charles Reeves |
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