| Advisory opinion regarding the employment of Jessica Prine as an office nurse at the Rural Health Clinic, owned by Richland Parish Hospital, at a time when her husband, Dr. Matthew Prine, is a staff physician at the Rural Health Clinic. |
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Dr. Matthew Prine is employed as a staff physician at the Rural Health Clinic, which is owned by the Richland Parish Hospital. Dr. Prine is not the head of any department or division and has no supervision over the nurses. Jessica Prine, the wife of Dr. Prine, is seeking employment as an office nurse at the Rural Health Clinic.
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La. R.S. 42:1119A states that no member of the immediate family of an agency head shall be employed in his agency.
La. R.S. 42:1112B(1) states that no public servant shall participate in a transaction involving the governmental entity in which, to his actual knowledge, any member of his immediate family has a substantial economic interest.
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Adopt proposed advisory opinion.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Tracy Barker |
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