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<section article="gel" article_name="Election Law" number="13-331" title_number="13" title_name="Campaign Finance" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="General Reporting Requirements">
  <level label="a">
    <text>In accordance with subsection (b) of this section, the State Board shall assess late filing fees for a failure to file a campaign finance report, an affidavit, or an amended campaign finance report, as specified in § 13–327 of this subtitle.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The State Board shall assess the fees in the following amounts for each day or part of a day that a campaign finance report, an affidavit, or an amended campaign finance report is overdue:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>$20 for each of the first 7 days;</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>$35 for each of the following 7 days; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="iii">
        <text>$50 for each day thereafter.</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>The maximum fee payable for a campaign finance report, an affidavit, or an amended campaign finance report is $1,000.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <level label="1">
      <text>The State Board shall accept an overdue campaign finance report, affidavit, or amended campaign finance report that is submitted without payment of the late filing fee, but the campaign finance report, affidavit, or amended campaign finance report is not considered filed until the fee has been paid.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>After an overdue campaign finance report, affidavit, or amended campaign finance report is received under paragraph (1) of this subsection no further late filing fee shall be incurred.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <level label="1">
      <text>Subject to paragraph (2) of this subsection, a late filing fee shall be paid by the campaign finance entity.</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>If the campaign finance entity has insufficient funds with which to pay a late filing fee in a timely manner, the late filing fee is the joint and several liability of the responsible officers.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
</section>
