| Request that the Board waive the $520 campaign finance late fee assessed against Francis J. Plaisance, an unsuccessful candidate for Mayor, City of Abbeville (population 12,167), Vermilion Parish, in the March 26, 2022 election, whose 10-G campaign finance disclosure report was filed 13 days late, respectively. |
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Francis J. Plaisance requests a waiver and states the following:
He was elected in 2006 as councilman-at-large for the city of Abbeville. Then ran for three consecutive terms unopposed. Since he was defeated in the Mayor's race he did not realize that he had to keep filing.
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ELECTION: March 26, 2022
TYPES OF REPORT: 10-G
DAYS LATE: 13
ASSESSED FEE: $520
REPORTS DUE: April 20, 2022
REPORTS FILED: May 3, 2022
ACTIVITY REPORT: $2,450.00 Receipts; $300.00 Expenditures; $4,964.23 Funds on Hand at the Close of Reporting Period.
OTHER LATE FILINGS: ONE- PAID
4/1/2006 Election: SPEC (10 days late) - $400, Suspended All but $120 - Paid
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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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