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Docket No. 19-565
 
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RE:
Advisory Opinion request from Greg Triolo, Radiologic Technologist with the LSU Medical Center - Lallie Kemp in Independence (Tangipahoa Parish).
Facts:
Greg Triolo has been employed at the LSU Medical Center - Lallie Kemp ("Lallie Kemp") in Independence since 2016. He is currently a Radiologic Technologist 3 assigned to the X-Ray, CT and MRI sections. Mr. Triolo's wife, Marissa Triolo, has been employed at Lallie Kemp since 2001. She is currently a Radiologic Technologist 3 in the Mammography section. Mr. Triolo is interested in applying for the position of Radiology Supervisor and/or Radiology Manager. The Manager position is above the Supervisor position, but both positions would place him in a supervisory role over his wife's position.

Law:
La. R.S. 42:1119A provides that no member of the immediate family of an agency head shall be employed in his agency.

La. R.S. 42:1119C(2) provides an exception that the Code shall not prohibit the continued employment of any public employee, nor in any way affect normal promotional advancements for such public employee where a member of the public employee's immediate family becomes the agency head of the public employee's agency, provided that the public employee has been employed for more than one year prior to the immediate family member becoming the agency head.

La. R.S. 42:1112B(1) provides 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.

La. R.S. 42:1112C requires that every public employee shall disqualify himself from participating in a transaction involving the governmental entity when a violation of Section 1112 would result.

Recommendations:
Adopt the proposed advisory opinion.
Assigned Attorney: David Bordelon
 
 
ATTACHMENTS:
Description:
2019-565 - Advisory Opinion Draft
2019-565 Request for Opinion