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(2)(a)(i) "Agency" to mean a department, office, division, agency,
<br /> commission, board, committee, or other organizational unit of a
<br /> governmental entity. (vi) For public servants of political subdivisions, it
<br /> shall mean the agency in which the public servant serves, except that for
<br /> members of any governing authority and for the elected or appointed chief
<br /> executive of a governmental entity, it shall mean the governmental entity.
<br /> Public servants of political subdivisions shall include, but shall not be
<br /> limited to, elected officials and public employees of municipalities, parishes,
<br /> and other political subdivisions; sheriffs and their employees; district
<br /> attorneys and their employees; coroners and their employees; and clerks of
<br /> court and their employees.
<br /> (15) "Participate" to mean to take part in or to have responsibility for action
<br /> of a governmental entity or proceeding,personally, as a public servant of the
<br /> governmental entity, through approval, disapproval, decision,
<br /> recommendation, the rendering of advice, investigation, or the failure to act
<br /> or perform a duty.
<br /> (18) "Public Employee" to means anyone, whether compensated or not, who
<br /> is (I) an administrative officer or official of a governmental entity who is not
<br /> filling an elective office. (ii) appointed by any elected official when acting
<br /> in an official capacity, and the appointment is to a post or position wherein
<br /> the appointee is to serve the governmental entity or an agency thereof,
<br /> either as a member of an agency, or as an employee thereof. (iii) engaged
<br /> in the performance of a governmental function. (iv) under the supervision or
<br /> authority of an elected official or another employee of the governmental
<br /> entity.
<br /> (19) "Public Servant" means a public employee or an elected official.
<br /> (21) "Substantial economic interest" as an economic interest which is of
<br /> greater benefit to the public servant or other person than to a general class or
<br /> group of persons, except: (a) the interest that the public servant has in his
<br /> position, office, rank, salary, per diem, or other matter arising solely from
<br /> his public employment or office; (b) the that an elected official who is
<br /> elected to a house, body, or authority has in a position or office of such
<br /> house, body, or authority which is required to be filled by a member of such
<br /> house, body, or authority by law, legislative rule, or home rule charter, (c)
<br /> the interest that a person has as a member of the general public.
<br /> (23) "Transaction involving the governmental entity" to mean any
<br /> proceeding, application, submission, request for a ruling or other
<br /> determination, contract, claim, case, or other such particular matter which
<br /> the public servant or former public servant of the governmental entity in
<br /> question knows or should know: (a)Is, or will be, the subject of action by the
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