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Ethics Board Docket No. 2021-346 Page 6 of 10 employee or other person,or impose a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars, or both. V. OPINION: It is the opinion of the Board that Dr. James Gilmore, Jr., while serving as an appointed member of the Baton Rouge North Economic Development District Board of Directors, violated Section 1113B, which prohibits an appointed member of any board from entering into or being in way interested in a transaction under the supervision or jurisdiction of the board of the appointed board member. The Baton Rouge North Economic Development District is a political subdivision of the state as set forth in its enabling statute,La. R.S. 33:3740.67. It is the governing authority for the District and a governmental entity as defined by Sections 1102(11)and(12)of the Ethics Code. Dr. Gilmore is an appointed member of a board by virtue of his appointment by the Mayor-President of East Baton Rouge Parish to serve as a member of the Board of Directors of the Baton Rouge North Economic Development District. As an appointed member of a board, Dr. Gilmore is a public employee and public servant as defined by the Ethics Code. As a public servant of the Baton Rouge North Economic Development District,a political subdivision of the state,Dr. Gilmore's agency is the Baton Rouge North Economic Development District as defined by the Ethics Code. As such, Dr. Gilmore was prohibited from entering into or being in way interested in a transaction under the supervision or jurisdiction of his agency, the District. Dr. Gilmore entered into and was in any way interested in his appointment to the position of Interim Executive Director, which was a particular matter that was the subject of action by the