Charities Fines History
Exhibit A - Charities Fines History Included in the Secretary of State’s (SoS) December 4, 2019 letter to the House Legislative Oversight Committee (LOC). This information was provided in response to the following question in LOC’s November 15, 2019 letter to the SoS: “24. Please provide in an Excel document, a list of the administrative fines issued, including the type of fine, amount of fine, entity fined, and year in which the fine was issued, for each year, as far back to the initial passage of the Solicitation of Charitable Funds Act as readily available to the agency.1” In addition to providing the information in this document, SoS provided the following response: The agency is providing a list of fines from 2009 to present in Exhibit A, which is attached to this response. This data was pulled from the charities database launched in February 2009. 1 “Under the Solicitation of Charitable Funds Act, the maximum fine is $2,000.00 for each separate violation. Fines for certain filing violations are calculated at a rate of $10.00 per day late, not to exceed $2,000.00. These violations include late annual financial reports, late professional fundraiser violations, late contracts, and late joint financial reports. For these fines, the Division of Public Charities will send an initial Notice of Administrative Fine that notifies the recipient that the fine has begun accruing. Once the late filing is submitted or 200 days have passed (at which point the maximum fine of $2,000.00 is assessed), the Division of Public Charities will send a Notice of Administrative Fine Invoice.” See Secretary of State Charities, Investigations, and Trademarks presentation, slide 49 and testimony during October 28, 2019, meeting from Shannon Wiley, SoS General Counsel.
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