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Agency Tracking No. 0 -455 Page 6 of 8 provided to a physician, health care professional, or appropriate public employee for the administration or dispensation to a patient at no cost to the patient- food, drink, or refreshments consumed by a public servant, including reasonable transportation and entertainment incidental thereto, while the personal gest of some person, and, with reference to legislators and employees in the legislative branch of state govenun.ent only, reasonable transportation when organized primarily for educational or infonnational purposes, including food and drink incidental thereto, and includes but is not limited to: i any lean, except a bona fide loan made by a duly licensed lending institution at the non-nal nate of interest, any property interest, interest in a contract, merchandise, service} and any employment or other arrangement involving a right to compensation; i1) any option to obtain a thing of economic value, irrespective of the conditions to the exercise of such option; (iii) any promise or undertaking for the present or future delivery or procurement of a thing of economic value. (h) La. R.S. 42:1153A Upon a determination that any elected official or other person has violated any provision of any law within the jurisdiction of the Board of Ethics except violations of the Campaign Finance Disclosure Act which shall be governed by Chapter I I of Title 18 of the Louisiana Devised Statutes of 1950,the Ethics Adjudicatory Board may censure the elected official or person, or impose a fine of not more than ten thousand dollars, or both. (i) La.. R.S 42:1155A If an investigation conducted pursuant to this Part reveals that any public servant or other person has violated any law within the jurisdiction of the Board of Ethics to his economic advantage, and after an adjudicatory hearing on the matter, the Ethics Adjudicatory Board may order the payment of penalties. recovery may include, in addition to an annount equal to such economic advantage, penalties not to exceed one half of the amount of the economic advantage. La.R.S.4 t 1155E The Ethics Adjudicatory Board is authorized to order the forfeiture of any gifts or payments made in violation of this Chapter. V. PRAYER FOR RELIEF 1i I Based on the foregoing facts, Jeffrey M. Landry,while serving as Attorney General for the I State of Louisiana, violated La. R.S. 42:111 1by virtue of receiving complimentary private airfare to and from Hawaii to which he was not duly entitled to receive for the perfonn.ance of his I job duties as Attorney General.