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Docket No. 12-1583
 
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RE:
Advisory opinion regarding Amy Martinez's service on an Advisory Board of the Lafourche Council on Aging, Inc. while she is employed with Entergy and the Council on Aging seeks a grant through Entergy.
Facts:
Amy Martinez is the chairman of an Advisory Board for the Lafourche Council on Aging, Inc. The Advisory Board advises the Board of Directors on what the Advisory Board thinks should be done or approved. The Board of Directors has final decision making authority on all matters.

Amy Martinez works for Entergy. The Lafourche Council on Aging, Inc. has been applying for grants through Entergy for fans, blankets and heaters.

Law:
La. R.S. 42:1111C(2)(d) prohibits a public servant and a legal entity in which the public servant exercises control or owns an interest from receiving any thing of economic value for services 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 Section 1115(A)(1) or (B) from receiving a gift.
La. R.S. 42:1115A(1) prohibits a public servant from soliciting or accepting, 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 have a contractual, business or financial relationship with the public servant's agency.

La. R.S. 42:1112B(3) states that no public servant shall participate in a transaction involving the governmental entity in which, to his actual knowledge, any person of which he is an officer, director, trustee, partner, or employee has a substantial economic interest.

Recommendations:
Adopt proposed advisory opinion.

Assigned Attorney: Tracy Barker
 
 
ATTACHMENTS:
Description:
2012-1583 Draft Opinion
2012-1583- Advisory Opinion Request