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Ethics Board Docket No. 2022-698 <br /> Page 4 of 7 <br /> 10. <br /> The following terms are defined in Section 1102 of the Ethics Code and are relevant when <br /> analyzing the above Section: <br /> (12) "Governmental entity" means the state or any political subdivision which <br /> employs the public employee or employed the former public employee or <br /> to which the elected official is elected, as the case may be. <br /> (17) "Political subdivision" means any unit of local government authorized to <br /> perform governmental functions. <br /> (18) "Public employee" means anyone, whether compensated or not, who is <br /> appointed by an elected official to serve as an employee of the governmental <br /> entity or an agency thereof. <br /> (19) 'Public servant"means a public employee or an elected official. <br /> (22)(a) "Thing of economic value" means money or any other thing having <br /> economic value. <br /> 11. <br /> La. R.S. 42:1153(B) provides the following with respect to penalties: <br /> Upon a determination that any public employee or other person has violated any <br /> provision of any law within the jurisdiction of the Board of Ethics...the Ethics <br /> Adjudicatory Board may remove, suspend,or order a reduction in pay, or demotion <br /> of the public employee or other person, or impose a fine of not more than ten <br /> thousand dollars, or both. <br /> V. <br /> OPINION <br /> It is the opinion of the BOE that Aimee Riviere, for purposes of the Ethics Code, was a <br /> public servant while she was employed by the West Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office. <br /> It is the opinion of the BOE that Aimee Riviere, in her capacity as an employee of the West <br /> Baton Rouge Parish Sheriff's Office, violated La. R.S. 42:1111(A)(1)(a) by virtue of her receipt <br /> of payments totaling $4,996.16, which she was not duly entitled to receive for the performance of <br />