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�,,,,,,,� STATE OF LOUISIANA <br /> p•''pF Lotj- DEPARTMENT OF STATE CIVIL SERVICE <br /> Opti°+ s�9n <br /> ••� ya LOUISIANA BOARD OF ETHICS <br /> ��;,r,<_u;II P.O.BOX 4368 <br /> `' BATON ROUGE, LA 70821 <br /> (225)219-5600 <br /> FAX (225)381-7271 <br /> 1-800-842-6630 <br /> wwwethics.la.gov <br /> December 18, 2017 <br /> Gail Segura <br /> 4305 Martin Street <br /> New Iberia, Louisiana 70560 <br /> Re: Louisiana Board of Ethics Docket No.2017-1230 <br /> Dear Ms. Segura: <br /> The Louisiana Board of Ethics, at its December 15, 2017 Board meeting, considered your request <br /> for an advisory opinion regarding whether you may be reemployed by the Iberia Parish School Board <br /> as a bus driver while your daughter is a Iberia Parish School Board Member. You stated that you <br /> worked for Iberia Parish as a bus driver from 1992 until your retirement in May of 2015.Your house <br /> was flooded in 2016 and you are now seeking to be re-employed by your former agency. Rachel <br /> Segura is your daughter-in-law.She has served as an Iberia Parish School Board Member for District <br /> #10 since 2011. <br /> The Board concluded,and instructed me to inform you,that the Code of Governmental Ethics would <br /> not prohibit you from being employed by the Iberia Parish School Board while your immediate <br /> family member servers on the Iberia Parish School Board. La. R.S. 42:1119A provides that no <br /> member of the immediate family of an agency head shall be employed in his agency.Rachel Segura <br /> was serving as an agency head of the Iberia Parish School Board at the time of your retirement.Prior <br /> to your retirement, you met the provisions in La. R.S. 42:1119C(2) allowing your continued <br /> employment since you had been employed in the agency for a period of at least one year prior to <br /> Rachel Segura being an agency head for Iberia Parish School Board.La.R.S.42:1119C(5)provides <br /> that the provisions of this Section shall not be construed to prohibit the reemployment of a retiree <br /> whose employment was allowed under the provisions of this Section on the date of her retirement. <br /> Any such reemployment shall be in compliance with all other applicable laws. Therefore, La. R.S. <br /> 42:1119C(5) will allow your reemployment, as long as you are in compliance with all other <br /> applicable laws. If you are reemployed by Iberia Parish School Board while your daughter-in-law <br /> serves on the board, then La. 42:1119B(2) would require you to file a disclosure form(Form 403) <br /> within thirty days after the beginning of each school year. <br /> Additionally,the Board concluded,and instructed me to inform you,that if you are reemployed by <br /> Iberia Parish School Board while your daughter-in-law serves on the board, then Rachel Segura <br /> would be prohibited by La. 42:1112B(1) from participating in any transaction in which you had a <br /> substantial economic interest.La.R.S.42:1112B(1)provides that no public servant shall participate <br /> in a transaction involving the governmental entity in which, to his actual knowledge, any member <br /> AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER <br />