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4) Neither Ms. Campbell and Ms. Williams will enter or approve each other's time or leave. <br /> 5) Neither Ms. Campbell and Ms. Williams will be involved in any decision making regarding <br /> the salary, transfer,promotion, reallocation, or discipline involving the other. <br /> 6) Both Ms. Campbell and Ms. Williams will refrain from participations in, reviewing or <br /> approving any other job-related matters in which the other has a substantial economic <br /> interest. <br /> DENR understands if Ms. Campbell is promoted to be Ms. Williams agency head in order for Ms. <br /> Williams to retain her employment she must have been employed by DENR for over a year at that <br /> time. <br /> LAw <br /> La. R.S. 42:1112B (1): No public servant shall participate in a transaction involving the <br /> governmental entity in which, to his actual knowledge, any member of his immediate family has <br /> a substantial economic interest. Qualification plan to be developed in accordance with rules <br /> adopted by the Board to remove a public servant from participating in transactions that would <br /> otherwise present violations of Section 1112 of the Code. <br /> La.R.S.42:1112C allows a disqualification plan to be developed in accordance with rules adopted <br /> by the Board to remove a public servant from participating in transactions that would otherwise <br /> present violations of Section 1112 of the Code. <br /> La. R.S. 42:1119: No member of the immediate family of an agency head shall be employed in <br /> his agency. <br /> La. R.S. 42:1119C(2)provides that the provisions of this Section shall not prohibit the continued <br /> employment of any public employee nor shall it be construed to hinder, alter, or in any way affect <br /> normal promotional advancements for such public employee where a member of public <br /> employee's immediate family becomes the agency head of such public employee's agency, <br /> provided that such public employee has been employed in the agency for a period of at least one <br /> year prior to the member of the public employee's immediate family becoming the agency head. <br /> La. R.S. 42:1102(2)(a) defines "agency" for public servants of political subdivisions to mean the <br /> office, division, agency, commission, board, committee, or other organizational unit in which he <br /> works. <br /> La. R.S. 42:1102(3) defines "agency head"to mean the chief executive or administrative officer <br /> of an agency. <br /> La. R.S. 42:1102(13) defines "immediate family"to include a public servant's siblings. <br /> ANALYSIS <br /> As employees of OMF both Valerie Campbell and Kayla Williams. Are public employees and <br /> public servants pursuant to La. R.S. 42:1102(18)(a) and (19). Neither is an agency head pursuant <br /> to La. R.S. 42:1102(3) at this time. Therefore, La. R.S. 42:1119 does not apply. However, Ms. <br /> Campbell is prohibited by La. R.S. 42:1112(B)(1) from participating in any transaction in which <br /> her daughter Ms. Williams has a substantial economic interest. Therefore, the proposed <br />