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Ethics Board Docket No. 2023-012 <br /> Page 6 of 11 <br /> owns an interest in excess of twenty-five percent, shall receive any thing of economic value <br /> for or in consideration of services rendered, or to be rendered, to or for any person during <br /> his public service unless such services are: <br /> (d)Neither performed for nor compensated by any person from whom such public servant <br /> would be prohibited by R.S. 42:1115(A)(1) or(B) from receiving a gift. <br /> §1115. Gifts <br /> A. No public servant shall solicit or accept, directly or indirectly, any thing of economic <br /> value as a gift or gratuity from any person or from any officer, director, agent,or employee <br /> of such person, if such public servant knows or reasonably should know that such person: <br /> (1) Has or is seeking to obtain contractual or other business or financial relationships with <br /> the public servant's agency <br /> 2. <br /> The following terms are defined in Section 1102 of the Code and are relevant when <br /> analyzing the above Sections: <br /> (2)(a)(i) defines "agency," for a public servant in the twenty principal departments <br /> of the executive branch of state government,the office in which such public servant <br /> carries out his primary responsibilities; except that in the case of the secretary, <br /> deputy secretary, or undersecretary of any such department and officials carrying <br /> out the responsibilities of such department officers it shall mean the department in <br /> which he serves. <br /> (11)defines"governing authority"to mean the body which exercises the legislative <br /> functions of a political subdivision. <br /> (12) defines "governmental entity" to mean the state or any political subdivision <br /> which employs the public employee or employed the former public employee or to <br /> which the elected official is elected, as the case may be. <br /> (16) defines "person" to mean an individual or legal entity other than a <br /> governmental entity, or an agency thereof. <br /> (18) defines"public employee"to mean anyone, whether compensated or not, who <br /> is (i)an administrative officer or official of a governmental entity who is not filling <br /> an elective office; (ii) appointed by any elected official when acting in an official <br />