SECTION 18.17. Report Must be Filed

(a) The payment of a civil or criminal fine for failure to file a report, or for filing a report late, does not satisfy a filer's obligation to file the report. Late fines continue to accrue until the report is filed.

(b) A filer, other than the treasurer of a political committee, who dies or becomes incapacitated is considered to have filed the report on the date of the filer's death or the date the filer is determined to be incapacitated, as applicable, for purposes of this chapter. In this subsection, "incapacitated" means determined by a judgment of a court exercising probate jurisdiction to be either partially mentally incapacitated without the right to vote or totally mentally incapacitated.

Source Note: The provisions of this §18.17 adopted to be effective January 6, 2002, 27 TexReg 130; amended to be effective September 22, 2021, 46 TexReg 6237