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OF Lop STATE OF LOUISIANA <br /> DEPARTMENT OF STATE CIVIL SERVICE <br /> LOUISIANA BOARD OF ETHICS <br /> P.O.BOX 4368 <br /> * * BATON ROUGE,LA 70821 <br /> cONFIDENc� (225)219-5600 <br /> '••«o»•' FAX:(225)381-7271 <br /> 1-800-842-6630 <br /> www.ethics.Ia.gov <br /> April 7, 2025 <br /> Chris Martin <br /> 4111 Hwy 552 <br /> Downsville, Louisiana 71234 <br /> Re: Docket No. 2024-920 <br /> Advisory Opinion <br /> Dear Mr. Martin: <br /> The Louisiana Board of Ethics, at its meeting on April 4, 2025, considered your advisory opinion <br /> request as to whether the Code of Governmental Ethics ("Code") permits your father's company <br /> from transacting with Downsville Community Charter School ("School") if you were to be <br /> employed in a transportation position with the school. <br /> FACTS PROVIDED <br /> You currently serve as a substitute bus driver for Downsville Community Charter School and wish <br /> to apply for a position with the transportation staff or as a transportation supervisor.The bus drivers <br /> for the school currently reach out to your father's business to work on the school buses.The drivers <br /> reach out to you and/or your father with any issues on the school buses. <br /> LAW <br /> La. R.S.42:1113A(1)(a).No public servant, excluding any legislator and any appointed member <br /> of any board or commission and any member of a governing authority of a parish with a population <br /> of ten thousand or less, or member of such a public servant's immediate family, or legal entity in <br /> which he has a controlling interest shall bid on or enter into any contract, subcontract, or other <br /> transaction that is under the supervision or jurisdiction of the agency of such public servant. <br /> La. R.S. 42:1102(2)(a). "Agency" means a department, office, division, agency, cominission, <br /> board, committee, or other organizational unit of a governmental entity. <br /> La. R.S. 42:1102(13). "Immediate family" as the term relates to a public servant means his <br /> children, the spouses of his children, his brothers and their spouses, his sisters and their spouses, <br /> his parents, his spouse, and the parents of his spouse. <br /> La.R.S.42:1102(18)(a). "Public employee"means anyone,whether compensated or not,who is: <br /> (i) An administrative officer or official of a goverrunental entity who is not filling an <br /> elective office. <br /> Page 1 of 2 (BD 2024-920) <br /> AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER <br />