§ 18:1485 — Filing; receipt by supervisory committee; special penalties

§1485. Filing; receipt by supervisory committee; special penalties
A. For purposes of this Chapter, a report, statement, or any other paper or document
required to be filed with the supervisory committee shall be deemed to be filed when it is
received either physically or electronically, by facsimile or e-mail, in the office of the
supervisory committee in Baton Rouge, at the time it is hand-delivered, at the time it is
postmarked or is receipted on a return receipt requested form by the United States Postal
Service, if it is subsequently received in the office of the supervisory committee in Baton
Rouge, or at the time it is deposited for delivery with a commercial delivery service as
indicated on the receipt or invoice provided by the commercial delivery service, if it is
subsequently received in the office of the supervisory committee in Baton Rouge.
B. If the date on which a report is required to be filed occurs on a weekend or a
federal or state holiday, the report shall be filed no later than the first working day after the
date it would otherwise be due that is not a federal or state holiday.
C. Each candidate for a major or district office and each principal campaign
committee of a candidate for a major or district office shall electronically file reports of
contributions and expenditures with the supervisory committee through the Board of Ethics
Computerized Data Management System as provided in R.S. 42:1158.
D. If a report that is required to be filed pursuant to this Chapter is determined by the
supervisory committee to be illegible, the supervisory committee may require the person who
has filed such report to resubmit a legible report; however, the report shall be deemed to be
received by the supervisory committee on the date that the original, illegible report was
received.
E.(1) Each person and committee required to file reports pursuant to this Chapter that
receives contributions or loans in excess of fifty thousand dollars in a calendar year or which
makes expenditures in excess of fifty thousand dollars in a calendar year, other than a
candidate or principal campaign committee of a candidate or a subsidiary committee thereof
or a political committee of a recognized political party, shall file all reports required by this
Chapter electronically with the supervisory committee through the Board of Ethics
Computerized Data Management System as provided in R.S. 42:1158.
(2) In addition to any other applicable penalties, the failure of a person or committee
required by Paragraph (1) of this Subsection to file a report electronically shall subject such
person or committee to penalties of five hundred dollars per day until the report is filed as
required by this Subsection.
F.(1) If a person or committee required by this Section to electronically file a report
through the Board of Ethics Computerized Data Management System is unable to do so
because of a technical problem beyond the person's or committee's control, the person or
committee shall file the report by the date the report is due via other means specified in
Subsection A of this Section.
(2) The person or committee shall file with such report a certification detailing the
technical problem that prevented the person or committee from electronically filing the report
through the Board of Ethics Computerized Data Management System.
(3) The person or committee shall electronically file the report through the Board of
Ethics Computerized Data Management System no later than five days after the date the
report was originally due.

Legislative History

Acts 1980, No. 786, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1981; Acts 1984, No. 466, §1, §2; Acts 1998, 1st Ex. Sess., No. 123, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 1999; Acts 1999, No. 164, §1; Acts 1999, No. 254, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2000; Acts 2005, No. 431, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2006; Acts 2008, 1 st Ex. Sess., No. 17, §1, eff. July 1, 2009; Acts 2008, 1 st Ex. Sess., No. 25, §1, eff. Jan. 1, 2010; Acts 2008, 1 st Ex. Sess., No. 25, §2, eff. Jan. 1, 2012; Acts 2010, No. 766, §1, eff. June 30, 2010; Acts 2025, No. 398, §1, eff. June 20, 2025.