| Advisory Opinion Request from Megan Marino, MD, the Deputy Medical Director of the New Orleans Emergency Medical Services (EMS), as to whether she may be appointed to the board of ImageTrend, Inc., a vendor of EMS. |
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Megan Marino, MD, is currently an emergency medicine physician. She is also employed on a part-time basis by the City of New Orleans as Deputy Medical Director of New Orleans Emergency Medical Services ("EMS").
ImageTrend, Inc. ("ImageTrend") is a medical services provider, and is a vendor of EMS.
ImageTrend has asked Dr. Marino to serve on its Board of Advisors. The position is unpaid, but ImageTrend would make a donation to a charity of her choosing for each meeting she attends, and they propose to reimburse her for travel expenses related to meetings.
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La. R.S. 42:1111C(2)(d) provides that no public servant and no legal entity in which the public servant exercises control or owns an interest in excess of twenty-five percent, shall receive any thing of economic value for or in consideration of services rendered, or to be rendered, to or for any person during his public service unless such services are: (d) Neither performed for nor compensated by any person or from any officer, director, agent, or employee of such person, if such public servant knows or reasonably should know that such person has or is seeking to obtain contractual or other business or financial relationships with the public servant's agency.
La. R.S. 42:1112B(3) states that no public servant shall participate in a transaction involving the governmental entity in which, to his actual knowledge, any person of which he is an officer, director, trustee, partner, or employee has a substantial economic interest.
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Adopt proposed advisory opinion.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Charles Reeves |
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