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STATE OF LOUISIANA <br /> of Lopcsl DEPARTMENT OF STATE CIVIL SERVICE <br /> LOUISIANA BOARD OF ETHICS <br /> Y P.O.BOX 4368 <br /> BATON ROUGE, LA 70821 <br /> (225)219-5600 <br /> " FAX:(225)381-7271 <br /> 1-800-842-6630 <br /> www.ethics.Ia.gov <br /> October 6, 2025 <br /> Dr. Michael Becker <br /> EBRP Mosquito Abatement and Rodent Control <br /> 10550 Veterans Memorial Blvd <br /> Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70808 <br /> Re: Docket No. 2025-459 <br /> Advisory Opinion <br /> Dear Dr. Becker: <br /> The Louisiana Board of Ethics, at its meeting on October 3, 2025, considered your advisory <br /> opinion request as to whether the Code of Governmental Ethics ("Code") would prohibit Guy <br /> Faget, a part-time entomologist for East Baton Rouge Parish Mosquito Abatement and Rodent <br /> Control District No. 1 (District), from being hired as a contract pilot within two years of the <br /> termination of his employment. <br /> FACTS PROVIDED <br /> Mr. Faget began his career with the District in 1980 and retired in 2010. In 2011, he was rehired <br /> and continues to serve in a part-time entomologist role. Mr. Faget became interested in aerial <br /> missions using aircraft to spray for mosquito control. He took up flight training on his own and <br /> eventually became a pilot and started volunteering to fly aerial missions for the District. His job <br /> description never included flying. The pilots are all contract employees. Mr. Faget was given <br /> hazard pay as an entomologist to compensate him for training the contract pilots. All current <br /> contract pilots have been trained by Mr. Faget.You would like to know if he can terminate his part- <br /> time employment and be hired as a contract pilot. <br /> LAW <br /> La. R.S. 42:1121B. No former public employee shall, for a period of two years following the <br /> termination of his public employment, assist another person,for compensation, in a transaction,or <br /> in an appearance in connection with a transaction in which such former public employee <br /> participated at any time during his public employment and involving the governmental entity by <br /> which he was formerly employed, or for a period of two years following the termination of his <br /> public employment, render, any service which such former public employee had rendered to the <br /> agency during the term of his public employment on a contractual basis, regardless of the parties <br /> to the contract,to, for, or on behalf of the agency with which he was formerly employed. <br /> La. R.S. 42:1102(2)(a). "Agency" means a department, office, division, agency, commission, <br /> board, committee, or other organizational unit of a governmental entity. <br /> Page 1 of 3 (BD 2025-459) <br /> AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER <br />