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Agenda Item
Docket No. 21-628
 
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RE:
Request that the Board waive a $3,000 campaign finance late fee assessed against La State Pelican PAC, LLC, a political action committee, its committee's chairperson, and treasurer, Thomas C. Delahaye, in the November 3, 2020 election, whose 10-G campaign finance disclosure reports was filed 112 days late.
Facts:


Thomas Delahaye, PAC chairperson, requests a waiver and states the following:


The PAC is brand new and until this error they have consistently followed all regulations. The 10-G was only technically late because they disclosed all receipts and expenditures on the previous reports filed and simply failed to file the correct report.


Comments:
ELECTION: November 3, 2020
TYPES OF REPORT: 10-G
DAYS LATE: 112
ASSESSED FEE: $3,000
REPORTS DUE: November 25, 2020
REPORTS FILED: March 17, 2021


ACTIVITY REPORT: $-0 in Receipts; $2,581.88 in Expenditures and $28,134.66 Funds on Hand at Close of Reporting Period


OTHER LATE FILINGS: NONE

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:
Decline to waive.
Assigned Attorney: Charles Reeves
 
 
ATTACHMENTS:
Description:
2021-628 - CF WAiver Request La State Pelican PAC, LLC 10-G