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La. R.S. 42:1102 provides the following definitions: (2)(a) "Agency" means a department, office, division, agency, commission, board, committee, or other organizational unit of a governmental entity. (12) "Governmental entity"means the state or any political subdivision which employs the public employee or employed the former public employee or to which the elected official is elected, as the case may be. (18)(a) 'Public employee"means anyone,whether compensated or not, who is: (i) An administrative officer or official of a governmental entity who is not filling an elective office. (ii) Appointed by any elected official when acting in an official capacity, and the appointment is to a post or position wherein the appointee is to serve the governmental entity or an agency thereof, either as a member of an agency, or as an employee thereof. (iii)Engaged in the performance of a governmental function. (iv) Under the supervision or authority of an elected official or another employee of the governmental entity. (19) 'Public servant" means a public employee or an elected official. ANALYSIS As an employee of Louisiana Tech University, you are a public employee pursuant to La. R.S. 42:1102(18).Your agency is the College of Engineering and Science,and your governmental entity is the State of Louisiana. La. R.S. 42:1121B (1) prohibits you, for a period of two years following the termination of your public employment, from assisting another person, for compensation, in a transaction, or in an appearance in connection with a transaction in which you participated at any time during your public employment and involving the state of Louisiana,or from rendering,any service which you had rendered to the College of Engineering and Science during the term of your public employment on a contractual basis, regardless of the parties to the contract, to, for, or on behalf of the Instrumentation and Control Systems Engineering Technology Program. Therefore, La. R.S. 42:112113(1) does not prohibit you or DKB Solutions, LLC, from providing services to Louisiana Tech University's Innovation Enterprise division to help establish a grant writing program. Page 2 of 3 (BD 2023-1077)