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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".02" citation="COMAR 33.20.08.02" title_num="33" subtitle_num="20" chapter_num="08" heading="Referral for Prosecution.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Show Cause Notice. If the State Board determines that there has been, for more than 30 days, a failure to file a statement of contributions by a person doing public business or that the statement of contributions does not include the information required by Election Law Article, §14-104, Annotated Code of Maryland, the State Board shall issue a notice prescribed in §B of this regulation to the person doing public business.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>Contents of the Notice. The notice shall demand that, within 30 days after its issuance of the notice:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>The failure to file must be rectified and any late filing fee due be paid; or</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>The person doing public business shall show cause why the State Board should not ask the appropriate prosecuting authority to prosecute the person doing public business for a failure to file.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>Delivery. The notice shall be provided:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>By first-class mail; and</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>To the officer authorized by the person to file the statement of contributions.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>Central Collection. In its discretion, the appropriate prosecuting authority may refer the matter for action to the Central Collection Unit within the Department of Budget and Management.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="E.">
    <text>Penalty. A person doing public business who fails, without cause, to file a statement of contributions and pay the late fee within 30 days after the issuance of the notice prescribed in §B is guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction subject to the penalties prescribed in of the Election Law Article, §14-107, Annotated Code of Maryland.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>