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Ethics Board Docket No. 2021-751 Page 5 of 11 the Louisiana Code of Governmental Ethics. La.R.S. 17:3996B Notwithstanding any state law,rule,or regulation to the contrary and except as may be otherwise specifically provided for in an approved charter, a charter school established and operated in accordance with the provisions of this Chapter and its approved charter and the school's officers and employees shall be exempt from all statutory mandates or other statutory requirements that are applicable to public schools and to public school officers and employees except for the following laws otherwise applicable to public schools with the same grades: (20)Code of Governmental Ethics,R.S. 42:1101 et seq.,with the exception of R.S.42:1119 as it applies to any person employed by a charter school prior to August 15, 2003. Section 1119 of the Code of Governmental Ethics prohibits an immediate family of an. agency head and a member of a governing authority from being employed in such agency head's agency and governing authority member's governmental entity. Section 1119 provides narrow exceptions to the nepotism prohibitions. Sections 1119A, 1119C and 1119D of the Code provide in pertinent part: §1119. Nepotism A. No member of the immediate family of an agency head shall be employed in his agency. C.(2)The provisions of this Section shall not prohibit the continued employment of any public employee nor shall it be construed to hinder, alter, or in any way affect normal promotional advancements for such public employee where a member of immediate family becoming the agency head. D. A willful violation of this Section shall subject the agency head, member of the governing authority, the public employee having authority to hire and fire the employee, the immediate supervisor of the employee, whether or not such persons are immediate family members of the employee,and such employee,to disciplinary