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La. R.S. 42:1111C(2)(d) prohibits a public servant and any legal entity in which the <br /> public servant exercises control or owns an interest in excess of twenty-five percent, from <br /> receiving any thing of economic value for or in consideration of services rendered, or to <br /> be rendered, to or for any person during her public service unless such services are <br /> neither performed for nor compensated by any person who has or is seeking to obtain <br /> contractual or other business or financial relationships with the public servant's agency. <br /> La. R.S. 42:1114 provides that each public servant and each member of her immediate <br /> family who derives any thing of economic value, directly, through any transaction <br /> involving her agency or who derives any thing of economic value of which she may be <br /> reasonably expected to know through a person which has bid on or entered into or is in <br /> any way financially interested in any contract, subcontract, or other transaction under the <br /> supervision or jurisdiction of her agency shall file a financial disclosure statement each <br /> year by May first. <br /> The Board concluded, and instructed me to inform you, that the Code of Governmental <br /> Ethics would not prohibit Mrs. Williams from continuing her employment with Gilsbar, <br /> LLC, at a time when it has a contract of insurance with the Parish. Board Docket No. 82- <br /> 02D creates an exception to La. R.S. 42:1111C(2)(d) when the following factors are met: <br /> (1) the employee must be a salaried or wage-earning employee; (2) the employee's salary <br /> must remain substantially unaffected by the contractual relationship; (3) the employee <br /> owns less than a "controlling interest" in the company; and (4) the employee is neither an <br /> officer, director, trustee, nor partner in the company. Mrs. Williams is a salaried <br /> employee of Gilsbar and her salary would not be affected by its contract of insurance <br /> with the Parish. Furthermore, Mrs. Williams is not an owner, officer, director, trustee, or <br /> partner of Gilsbar. As such, her employment meets the exception provided in BD No. <br /> 82-02D and she would not be prohibited from continuing her employment with Gilsbar, <br /> LLC. Nevertheless, Mrs. Williams is required to disclose the income that she receives <br /> from Gilsbar, at a time when Gilsbar has a contract of insurance with the Parish, in <br /> accordance with La. R.S. 42:1114. <br /> The Board further concluded, and instructed me to inform you, that the Code of <br /> Governmental Ethics would prohibit Mrs. Williams from voting on matters in which <br /> Gilsbar, LLC has a substantial economic interest, at a time when she is employed with <br /> Gilsbar. However, after recusing herself from voting on the matter, Mrs. Williams may <br /> participate in discussion and debate concerning the matter, provided that she discloses her <br /> conflict or potential conflict on the record of the Council prior to her participation in the <br /> discussion or debate and prior to the vote that is the subject of discussion or debate. <br /> Finally, the Board also instructed me to advise you that La. R.S. 42:1113A would <br /> prohibit Mrs. Williams from monitoring employee health insurance claims for the Parish, <br /> administering group health benefit enrollments for new Parish employees, or performing <br /> any other duties on behalf of Gilsbar, pursuant to its contract of insurance with the Parish. <br />