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Ethics Board Docket No. 2022-724 <br /> Page 6 of 11 <br /> §1117. Illegal payments <br /> No public servant or other person shall give, pay, loan, transfer, or deliver or offer <br /> to give,pay,loan, transfer or deliver, directly or indirectly, to any public servant or <br /> other person any thing of economic value which such public servant or other person <br /> would be prohibited from receiving by any provision of this Part. <br /> 4. <br /> The following terms are defined in Section 1102 of the Ethics Code and are relevant when <br /> analyzing the above Sections: <br /> * �x * <br /> (2)(a)(vi)defines "agency," for a public servant of a political subdivisions, it shall <br /> mean the agency in which the public servant serves. <br /> (8) defines "controlling interesY' to mean any ownership in any legal entity or <br /> beneficial interest in a trust, held by or on behalf of an individual or a member of <br /> his immediate family, either individually or collectively, which exceeds twenty- <br /> five percent of that legal entity. <br /> (9) defines "elected official" to mean any person holding an office in a <br /> governmental entity which is filled by the vote of the appropriate electorate. <br /> (12) defines "governmental entity" to mean the state or any political subdivision <br /> which employs the public employee or employed the former public employee or to <br /> which the elected official is elected, as the case may be. <br /> (13) defines "immediate family" as the term relates to a public servant, to mean as <br /> the term relates to a public servant means his children, the spouses of his children, <br /> his brothers and their spouses,his sisters and their spouses,his parents,his spouse, <br /> and the parents of his spouse. <br /> (15) defines "participate" to mean to take part in or to have or share responsibility <br /> for action of a governmental entity or a proceeding,personally, as a public servant <br /> of the governmental entity, through approval, disapproval, decision, <br /> recommendation, the rendering of advice, investigation, or the failure to act or <br /> perform a duty. <br /> (19) defines "public servant"to mean a public employee or an elected official. <br /> (21) defines "substantial economic interest"to mean an economic interest which is <br /> of greater benefit to the public servant or other person than to a general class or <br /> group of persons, except (a) the interest that the public servant has in his position, <br />