| Advisory Opinion request from Clay Nugent, Chief of the Georgetown Police Department (pop. 327) relative to employment of a police officer who is the lessee of Town Councilman, Jonathon Spurgeon. |
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Clay Nugent, Chief of Police for the Village of Georgetown (pop. 327), in Grant Parish, intends to hire Leighann Hall as a part-time police officer. The Georgetown Council would vote whether to hire Hall. One of three councilpersons on the Georgetown Council, Jonathon Spurgeon, is the landlord of Hall. Councilman Spurgeon intends to recuse himself regarding hiring of Hall.
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La. R.S. 42:1112B(5) prohibits a public servant, except as provided in R.S. 42:1120, from participating in a transaction involving the governmental entity in which, to his actual knowledge, any person who is a party to an existing contract with such public servant, or with any legal entity in which the public servant exercises control or owns an interest in excess of twenty-five percent, or who owes any thing of economic value to such public servant, or to any legal entity in which the public servant exercises control or owns an interest in excess of twenty-five percent, and who by reason thereof is in a position to affect directly the economic interests of such public servant.
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Adopt the proposed Advisory Opinion.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Greg Thibodeaux |
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