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V, <br /> PROVISIONS OF LAW <br /> The following provisions of law are implicated by the alleged facts stated herein: <br /> a. La. R.S. 4 :11,11 ( )(d): No public servant shall receive any thing of <br /> economic value for or in consideration of services rendered, or to be 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 . , 42:1115(A)(1) or(B)from receiving a gift, <br /> b. La. R.S. 42*11 . (1): No 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, if such public <br /> servant knows or reasonably should know that such person: (1) Has or is <br /> seeking to obtain contractual or other 'business or financial relationships with <br /> the public servant's agency; <br /> C. La* R.S. 42:1117:* leo public servant or other person shall give, pay, loan, <br /> transfer, or deliver or offer.to give, pay, loan, transfer, or deliver, directly or <br /> indirectly, to any public servant or other person any thing of economic value <br /> which such public servant or other person would be prohibited from receiving <br /> by any provision of this part. <br /> d. La. I .S. 42+1102 provides the following relevant definitions= <br /> (2)(a)(0) "Agency"gency" 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 governmental entity, it shall mean the goven-amental entity., Public <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 /> political subdivisions. <br /> (11) f t 'governing authority" means the body which exercises the legislative <br /> functions of a politic al subdivision. <br /> (12) "Governmental o vernmenta.l entity" means the state or any political subdivision <br /> which employs the public employee or employed the former public <br /> employee o-r to which the elected ofd tial is elected, as the case may be. <br /> (16) "Person"means an individual or legal entity other than a.governmental <br /> entity, or an agency thereof, <br /> Page 5 of 8 (Agency Tracking No. 2023-828) <br />