| Advisory opinion request by Dana Pecoraro, owner of Laurel Outdoor Advertising, regarding whether Laurel Outdoor Advertising may have a business relationship with a company owned by a New Orleans Regional Transit Authority (Transit Authority) Commissioner while Laurel Outdoor Advertising has contracts with the Transit Authority. |
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Dana Pecoraro owns Laurel Outdoor Advertising. This company has contracts with the Transit Authority. Its contract with the Transit Authority was voted on by the Transit Authority Board of Commissioners. Laurel Outdoor Advertising provides advertising sales services for the vehicles and bus shelters owned by the Transit Authority and provides maintenance on some of the bus shelters.
Al Herrera serves as a commissioner on the Transit Authority. He owns two companies, IPS Corp and Best Bolt and Supply. His sales team has reached out to Laurel Outdoor Advertising about supplying it with fasteners and other supplies.
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La. R.S. 42:1111C(2)(d) provides that no public servant and no legal entity in which the public servant exercises control or owns an interest in excess of twenty-five percent, shall receive any thing of economic value for or in consideration of services rendered, or to be rendered, to or for any person during his public service unless such services are neither performed for nor compensated by any person from whom such public servant would be prohibited by La. R.S. 42:1115A(1) or B from receiving a gift.
La. R.S. 42:1115A(1) provides that no public servant shall solicit or accept, directly or indirectly, any thing of economic value as a gift or gratuity from any person or from any officer, director, agent, or employee of such person, if such public servant knows or reasonably should know that such person has or is seeking to obtain contractual or other business or financial relationships with the public servant's agency.
La. R.S. 42:1117. La. R.S. 42:1117 provides that no public servant or other person shall give, pay, loan, transfer, or deliver, to give, pay, loan, transfer, or deliver, directly or indirectly, to any public servant or other person any thing of economic value which such public servant or other person would be prohibited from receiving by any provision of this Part.
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Adopt proposed advisory opinion.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Brett Robinson |
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