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Ethics Board Docket No. 2021-707 <br /> Page 5 of 11 <br /> member has a personal substantial economic interest. Section 1112B(1)provides in pertinent part: <br /> B(1) No public servant, except as provided in R.S. 42:1120, shall participate in a <br /> transaction involving the governmental entity in which,to his actual knowledge,any <br /> of the following persons has a substantial economic interest: <br /> (1)Any member of his immediate family. <br /> 3. <br /> The following terms in La.R.S.42:1102 of the Louisiana Code of Governmental Ethics are <br /> germane to analyzing the findings of fact and the applicable law. <br /> §1102. Definitions <br /> Unless the context clearly indicates otherwise,the following words and terms,when used in <br /> this Chapter, shall have the following meanings: <br /> (3)"Agency head"means the chief executive or administrative officer of an agency <br /> or any member of a board or commission who exercises supervision over the agency. <br /> (11)"Governing authority"means the body which exercises the legislative functions <br /> of a political subdivision. <br /> (13)"Immediate family"as the term relates to a public servant to mean his children, <br /> the spouses of his children, his brothers and their spouses, his sisters and their <br /> spouses,his parents,his spouse,and the parents of his spouse. <br /> (15) "Participate" means to take part in or to have responsibility for action of a <br /> governmental entity or proceeding, personally, as a public servant of the <br /> governmental entity,through approval,disapproval,decision,recommendation,the <br /> rendering of advice, investigation,or the failure to act or perform a duty. <br /> (17)"Political subdivision"means any unit of local government,including a special <br /> district,authorized by law to perform governmental functions. <br /> (18) "Employee" to means anyone, whether compensated or not, who is (I) an <br /> administrative officer or official of a governmental entity who is not filling an <br /> elective office. (ii) appointed by any elected official when acting in an official <br /> capacity, and the appointment is to a post or position wherein the appointee is to <br /> serve the governmental entity or an agency thereof,either as a member of an agency, <br />