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of Lop STATE OF LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF STATE CIVIL SERVICE LOUISIANA BOARD OF ETHICS P.O.BOX 4368 * * BATON ROUGE,LA 70821 CONFi DENc� (225)219-5600 «o» FAX:(225)381-7271 1-800-842-6630 www.ethics.1a.gov December 8, 2025 Jefferson Tessier, Jr. 1404 Ridgeland Drive Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70810 Re: Docket No. 2025-657 Advisory Opinion Dear Mr. Tessier: The Louisiana Board of Ethics,at its December 5,2025 meeting,considered your advisory opinion request as to whether the Code of Governmental Ethics (the"Code")prohibits your acceptance of employment with an engineering firm after the termination of your service with the Louisiana Division of Administration, Office of Community Development(OCD). FACTS PROVIDED You stated that you are currently employed by OCD as a Local Government Assistant within the Local Government Assistance Section. You provided that OCD, Local Government Assistance provides infrastructure (water, sewer and streets) grants to local communities throughout the state. The grantees hire an engineering consultant to create construction documents for the infrastructure grant they receive from OCD, Local Government Assistance. OCD has no preference in which engineering consultant is hired by the grantee. Your job as a local government assistant is to review the construction documents created by the engineer consultant. When you retire you want to know if you can go work for an engineering consultant group that receives grants from Local Government Assistance. You would be assisting on all new grant applications. LAW La. R.S. 42:1121B provides no former public employee shall, for a period of two years following the termination of his public employment,assist another person,for compensation,in a transaction, or in an appearance in connection with a transaction in which such former public employee participated at any time during his public employment and involving the governmental entity by which he was formerly employed, or for a period of two years following the termination of his public employment, render, any service which such former public employee had rendered to the agency during the term of his public employment on a contractual basis, regardless of the parties to the contract, to, for, or on behalf of the agency with which he was formerly employed. La.R.S.42:1102(2)(a)(vi)defines"agency"to mean, for public servants of political subdivisions, it shall mean the agency in which the public servant serves, except that for members of any governing authority and for the elected or appointed chief executive of a governmental entity, it Page 1 of 2 (BD 2025-657) AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER