| Advisory Opinion request regarding whether the Code of
Governmental Ethics ("Code") would prohibit Charlotte Dover from serving as Registrar for
the Registrar's Office at the University of New Orleans ("UNO") while her husband is employed with the Registrar's Office. |
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Ms. Dover has been employed with UNO since
2016. Her husband has been employed within the Registrar's Office at UNO since
2017. Ms. Dover currently serves as the Director of Records and Registration within
the Registrar's Office. She reports directly to the Registrar. Her husband is a
Coordinator within the Registrar's Office and reports directly to the Director of
Catalog and Curricula.
Should the Registrar position become open
in the future, Ms. Dover would like to apply for the position. However, she is concerned
whether the Code would permit her to serve as Registrar while her husband is
also employed within the Registrar's Office. Further, she asks whether her husband
can be promoted into a director position if she were to serve as Registrar.
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La. R.S. 42:1119A: No
member of the immediate family of an agency head shall be employed in his
agency.
La. R.S. 42:1119C(2):
The provisions of this Section shall not prohibit the continued employment of
any public employee nor shall it be construed to hinder, alter, or in any way
affect normal promotional advancements for such public employee where a member
of public employees' immediate family becomes the agency head of such public
employee's agency, provided that such public employee has been employed in the
agency for a period of at least one year prior to the member of the public
employee's immediate family becoming the agency head.
La. R.S. 42:1112B.
No public servant, except as provided in R.S. 42:1120, shall participate in a
transaction involving the governmental entity in which, to his actual
knowledge, any of the following persons has a substantial economic interest:
(1)
Any member of his immediate family.
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Adopt the proposed advisory opinion.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Mallory Guillot |
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