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regarding the Port's payment of invoices incurred for the development,maintenance, and repair of ' <br /> the Port's property ]eased to Seadrill from December 7, 2021, through April 18, 2023. The bort <br /> expended$158,302.80 on maintenance and repairs to the property leased to Seadrill from.May 20, <br /> through February 22, 2024.1 <br /> v. <br /> PROVISIONS OF LAW <br /> r The following provisions of law are implicated by the alleged facts stated herein: <br /> a. La. R.S. 42:111I ( (d): No public servant shall receive any thing of <br /> economic value for or in consideration of services rendered, or to he rendered, <br /> to or for any person during his public service unless such services are: (d) <br /> Neither performed for nor compensated by any person from whom such public <br /> servant would be prohibited by R.S.42-.1115(A)(1) or(B)from receiving a.gift. <br /> b. Int R.S. 4 :1115 (1.): leo public servant shall solicit or accept, directly or <br /> indirectly, any thing of economic value as a gift or gratuity from any person or <br /> from any officer, director, agent, or employee of such person, 1f such public <br /> servant knows or reasonably should know that such person: (1) Has or is <br /> seeping to obtain contractual or other business or financial -relationships with <br /> the public servant's agency. <br /> c. La. R.S. 4 *.111 (3)+ No p-ablie servant, <br /> as except provided in I .S. 4 :11 0 <br /> shall participate in a transaction involving the govemmental entity in which, to <br /> his actual knowledge, any of the full owing persons has a substantial economic <br /> interest: 3 Any person of which he is an officer, director, trustee, partner, or <br /> employee. <br /> d. La. R.S. 42:1102 provides the following relevant definitions: <br /> (2)(a)(vi) "Aurency" for public servants of political subdivisions shall mean <br /> the agency in which the public servant serves, except that for members of <br /> any governing authority and for the elected or appointed chief executive of <br /> a goveni-mental entity, it shall mean the governmental entity. Dubh e <br /> servants of political subdivisions shall include, but shall not be limited to, <br /> elected officials and public employees of municipalities,parishes, and other <br /> 4 <br /> political subdivisions. <br /> (11) "Governing authority" means the body which exercises the legislative <br /> functions of a political subdivision. <br /> Page 5 of 9 (Agency Wracking No. 03-828) <br />