| Request that the Board waive a $320 campaign finance late fee assessed against Chasity Berthelot Easley, a successful candidate for Council Member, District 2, Iberville Parish, in the October 12, 2019 election, whose 2020 Supplemental campaign finance disclosure report was filed 8 days late. |
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Chasity Berthelot Easley requests a waiver and states the following:
This was her first election and she was not familiar with the requirements of filing supplemental reports. She was also busy with Covid issues last February and preparing for online teaching and assignments. She requests a waiver since this is her first and last violation.
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ELECTION: October 12, 2019
TYPES OF REPORT: 2020 SUPPL
DAYS LATE: 8
ASSESSED FEE: $320
REPORTS DUE: February 18, 2021
REPORTS FILED: February 26, 2021
ACTIVITY REPORT: $-0 Receipts; $-0 Expenditures; $166.70 Funds on Hand at the 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.
LAC 52:1205B(3) provides that an automatic late fee shall not be assessed, and if one
is assessed shall be rescinded by the staff, if the person
required to file the report did not file the report due to a natural disaster, an act of God, force majeure, a
catastrophe, or such other similar occurrence on or during
the 14 days prior to the date the report was due
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Charles Reeves |
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