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STATE OF LOUISIANA pn'oF LotiJ` DEPARTMENT OF STATE CIVIL SERVICE •twae J6s LOUISIANA BOARD OF ETHICS l��i�, �lll P.O.BOX 4368 Q ✓.Eyv e . BATON ROUGE,LA 70821 ow-a-6,6 .dt (225)219-5600 "• `"'` FAX:(225)381-7271 1-800-842-6630 www.ethics.la.gov August 21, 2017 The Honorable Mike Danahay Louisiana State Representative,District 33 1422 Forest Lane Sulphur, LA 70663 RE: Ethics Board Docket No. 2017-746 Dear Rep. Danahay: The Louisiana Board of Ethics, at its August 18, 2017 meeting, considered your request for an advisory opinion as to whether should you be elected as the Mayor of Sulphur,you may continue to work for Lake Charles Office Supply (LCOS) which does business with the City of Sulphur. You stated that you are a field sales representative with LCOS. Your duties include recruiting new client accounts to generate sales and maintain existing accounts. You further stated that you do not have an ownership interest in LCOS and as a part-time employee your compensation would be a fixed monthly salary with no year-end bonus. You stated that LCOS has and continues to conduct business with the City of Sulphur,however that account is serviced by another sales representative. You further stated that if you are elected Mayor of Sulphur you would like to remain with LCOS on a part-time basis. The Board concluded and instructed me to inform you that the Code of Governmental Ethics would not prohibit your continued employment with LCOS should you be elected Mayor of Sulphur at a time when LCOS does business with the City of Sulphur. 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 (25%) 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. Ethics Board Docket No. 82-02D provides an exception to Section 1111C(2)(d) of the Code when certain factors are met: (1)the employee must Page 1 of 3 AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER