| Request that the Board waive the $400 campaign finance late fee assessed against Barry Rachal, a successful candidate for Member of School Board, District 9, Caddo Parish, in the November 4, 2014 election, whose 2019 Supplemental campaign finance disclosure report was filed 23 days late. |
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Barry Rachal requests a waiver and states the following:
He and his wife were in Israel at the time of filing. They were very blessed to even have gotten back home due to the covid outbreak.
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ELECTION: November 14, 2014
TYPES OF REPORT: 2019 SUPPL
DAYS LATE: 23
ASSESSED FEE: $400
REPORTS DUE: January 18, 2020
REPORTS FILED: March 12, 2020
ACTIVITY REPORT: $-0 Receipts; $-0 Expenditures; $709.11Funds on Hand at the Close of Reporting Period.
OTHER LATE FILINGS: TWO- PAID
9/30/2006 Election: 2007 SUPP (11 days late) - $440
11/4/2014 Election: 2020 SUPP (19 days late) - $760
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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.
LAC 52:1205(C) states if a report is filed more than 10 days late and the amount of activity on the report is less than the amount of the late fee to be assessed, the staff may reduce the late fee to the amount of activity or 10 times the per-day penalty, whichever is greater.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Charles Reeves |
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