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Docket No. 21-1056
 
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RE:
Advisory opinion request, submitted by Allison B. Nihart., regarding whether the Louisiana Code of Governmental Ethics ("Code") would prohibit her company, American All-Star, LLC ("AAS"), from allowing St. Tammany Parish school dance teams to participate in events hosted by AAS while she is employed as a teacher with St. Tammany Parish School Board.
Facts:
Ms. Nihart is an English/Language Arts and Math Teacher at Fontainebleau Junior High School, a St. Tammany Parish school. She also owns AAS, a small business organized under the laws of the State of Louisiana. AAS is a dance event business, servicing the Gulf Coast region, Nevada, and Texas. The company provides choreography, dance instruction, and leadership strategies to elementary, middle, high school public and private institutions by way of "summer dance camps." AAS also hosts multiple dance competitions open to all dance groups. Teams pay registration "fees" to participate in the dance camps and the competitions, which cover the expenses of offering and conducting the "event." A small number of St. Tammany Parish school dance teams (approximately three to five teams) participate in these AAS events yearly.
Law:
La. R.S. 42:1102(20.1) defines "service" to mean the performance of work, duties, responsibilities, or the leasing, rental, or sale of movable or immovable property.
La. R.S. 42:1111(C)(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; conducts operations or activities which are regulated by the public employee's agency; or has substantial economic interests which may be substantially affected by the performance or nonperformance of the public employee's official duty.
Recommendations:
Adopt the proposed advisory opinion.
Assigned Attorney: LaToya D. Jordan
 
 
ATTACHMENTS:
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2021-1056 - Advisory Opinion Request Allison B. Nihart
2021-1056 AO Final Draft