Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 45, November 9, 2024
Section 51.4 - Delinquency(a) A registration statement or report required to be filed under section 13A04 or 13A05 of the act (relating to registration; and reporting) is delinquent if not received by the Department on the date due as follows:(1) Hard copy filings must be received by 5 p.m in the office. For quarterly expense reports, from 5 p.m. until 12 a.m. midnight, a hard copy filing may be filed with the Department's designee. The filing location and the Department's designee will be on the Department's web site.(2) Electronic filings may be filed until 12 a.m. midnight.(b) A failure to timely file a registration statement, a quarterly expense report, a separate expense report, a notice of termination or an amendment to one of these filings constitutes a failure to register or report as required by the act; delinquency continues until the filing is received by the Department in proper form.(c) A registration statement will not be considered delinquent if the Department receives a registration statement electronically by the due date and the required photograph (in the case of a lobbyist's registration statement) and the filing fee, if due, are received by the Department within 5 calendar days of the Department's receipt of the original electronic filing, in accordance with § 51.10(b) (relating to electronic filing). If the 5 days end on a weekend or holiday, or on another day that the office of the filing location is closed or closes early, the deadline for the filing will be extended to the following Commonwealth business day. This section cited in 51 Pa. Code § 53.1 (relating to biennial filing fee); 51 Pa. Code § 53.2 (relating to principal registration); 51 Pa. Code § 53.3 (relating to firm registration); and 51 Pa. Code § 53.4 (relating to lobbyist registration).