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o Submission or approval of any employment requisitions (RI/R2) related to either individual that are funded through external grants or contracts; o Transactions such as financial reporting/invoicing, progress or technical reports, budgets (including budget revisions or reallocations), effort reports (personnel activity reports), sub-recipient monitoring reports, invention or patent reports, final close out grant reports; no cost extension reports, and compliance reports; o Any other transactions or matters in which either Dr.Fontenot or Dr.Ferrara would have a substantial economic interest. LAw La. R.S. 42:1102(2)(a)(i) defines "agency" to mean a department, office, division, agency, commission, board, committee, or other organizational unit of a governmental entity. La. R.S. 42:1102(3) defines "agency head" to mean the chief executive or administrative officer of an agency. La.R.S. 42:1102(13) defines "immediate family"to include a public servant's spouse. La. R.S. 42:1102(21) defines "substantial economic interest" as an economic interest which is of greater benefit to the public servant or other person than to a general class or group of persons. La. R.S. 42:1112B(1) provides that no public servant shall participate in a transaction involving the governmental entity in which, to his actual knowledge, any member of his immediate family has a substantial economic interest. La.R.S.42:1112C allows a disqualification plan to be developed in accordance with rules adopted by the Board to remove a public servant from participating in transactions that would otherwise present violations of Section 1112 of the Code. La.R.S. 42:1119A provides that no member of the immediate family member of an agency head shall be employed in his agency. La.R.S. 42:1119C(2)provides that the provisions of this Section shall not prohibit the continued employment of any public employee nor shall it be construed to hinder, alter, or in any way affect normal promotional advancements for such public employee where a member of public employee's immediate family becomes the agency head of such public employee's agency, provided that such public employee has been employed in the agency for a period of at least one year prior to the member of the public employee's immediate family becoming the agency head. ANALYSIS Dr. Quenton Fontenot's agency for purposes of the Code is the Department of Biological Sciences pursuant to La. R.S. 42:1102(2)(a)(i). However, Dr. Quenton Fontenot is not an agency head of the Department of Biological Sciences pursuant to La. R.S. 42:1102(3). Pursuant to La. R.S. Page 2 of 3 (BD 2025-479)