| Advisory Opinion request from Bryan Tabor, Parish Council Member, District 1, Lafayette Parish, as to whether he may serve as a compensated director of a local utility company. |
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Mr. Tabor currently serves as Parish Council Member, District 1, Lafayette Parish, as member of Lafayette Consolidate Government ("LCG").
SLEMCO is a member-owned electric utility cooperative serving the Acadiana area. SLEMCO and LCG, through Lafayette Utilities System, currently maintain a number of joint use electric facilities.
Mr. Tabor would like to serve as a member of SLEMCO's Board of Directors, which is a compensated position?
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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 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. 42:1102(2)(a)(vi) defines "agency" to mean, for public servants of political subdivisions, it shall mean the agency in which the public servant serves, except that for members of any governing authority and for the elected or appointed chief executive of a governmental entity, it shall mean the governmental entity. Public servants of political subdivisions shall include, but shall not be limited to, elected officials and public employees of municipalities, parishes, and other political subdivisions; sheriffs and their employees; district attorneys and their employees; coroners and their employees; and clerks of court and their employees.
La. R.S. 42:1102(18) defines "public servant" to mean a public employee or elected official.
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Adopt proposed advisory opinion.
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| Assigned Attorney: |
Charles Reeves |
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