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Ethics Board Docket No. 2023-1093 Page 5 of 9 3. The following terms are defined in Section 1102 of the Code and are relevant when analyzing the above Sections: * * * (2)(a)(vi) defines "agency," for public servants of political subdivisions, it shall mean the agency in which the public servant serves, except that for members of any governing authority and for the elected or appointed chief executive of a governmental entity, it shall mean the governmental entity. Public servants of political subdivisions shall include,but shall not be limited to, elected officials and public employees of municipalities, parishes, and other political subdivisions; sheriffs and their employees; district attorneys and their employees; coroners and their employees; and clerks of court and their employees. (12) defines "governmental entity" to mean the state or any political subdivision which employs the public employee or employed the former public employee or to which the elected official is elected, as the case may be. (15) defines "participate" to mean to take part in or to have or share responsibility for action of a governmental entity or a proceeding, personally, as a public servant of the governmental entity, through approval, disapproval, decision, recommendation, the rendering of advice, investigation, or the failure to act or perform a duty. (18) defines "public employee"to mean anyone, whether compensated or not,who is (i) an administrative officer or official of a governmental entity who is not filling an elective office; (ii) appointed by any elected official when acting in an official capacity, and the appointment is to a post or position wherein the appointee is to serve the governmental entity or an agency thereof, either as a member of an agency, or as an employee thereof; (iii) engaged in the performance of a governmental function; (iv)under the supervision or authority of an elected official or another employee of the governmental entity. (19) defines "public servanY' to mean a public employee or elected official. (22)(a)defines"thing of economic value"to mean money or any other thing having economic value except promotional items having no substantial resale value.