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14. <br />Between November 2023 and May 2025, JGAA paid BMPI a total amount of $4,117.00 to <br />run advertisements in the Bastrop Morehouse News under the name “Bingo Gold,” which is the <br />name of the bingo parlor in the City of Bastrop where JGAAhouses its video bingo machines. <br />IV. <br />PROVISIONS OF LAW <br />15. <br />La. R.S. 42:1117 <br />provides that no public servant or other person shall give, pay, <br />loan, transfer, or deliver or offer to give, pay, loan, transfer, or deliver, directly or <br />indirectly, to any public servantor other person any thing of economic value which <br />such public servant or other person would be prohibited from receiving by any <br />provision of this Part. <br />16. <br />La. R.S. 42:1111C(2)(d): <br />No public servant and no legal entity in which the public <br />servant exercises control or owns an interest in excess of twenty-five percent, shall <br />receive any thing of economic value for or in consideration of services rendered, or <br />to be rendered, to or for any person during his public service unless such services <br />are: (d) Neither performed for nor compensated by any person from whom such <br />public servant would be prohibited by R.S. 42:1115(A)(1) or (B) from receiving a <br />gift. <br />La. R.S. 42:1115A(1): <br />No public servant shall solicit or accept, directly or <br />indirectly, any thing of economic value as a gift or gratuity from any person or from <br />any officer, director, agent, or employee of such person, if such public servant <br />knows or reasonably should know that such person:(1)Has or is seeking to obtain <br />contractual or other business or financial relationships with the public servant's <br />agency. <br />17. <br />La. R.S. 42:1102 <br />definesthe followingrelevant terms: <br />(2)(a)(vi) <br />“Agency” for public servants of political subdivisionsshall mean the <br />agency in which the public servant serves, except that for members of any <br />governing authority and for the elected or appointed chief executive of a <br />governmental entity, it shall mean the governmental entity. Public servants of <br />political subdivisions shall include, but shall not be limited to, elected officials and <br />public employees of municipalities, parishes, and other political subdivisions. <br />Page 4of 5(Agency Tracking No. 2025-590) <br /> <br />