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STATE OF LOUISIANA ,,n pF LOUj DEPARTMENT OF STATE CIVIL SERVICE ��'`?°" „/?;:y LOUISIANA BOARD OF ETHICS r611��I��, P.O.BOX 4368 BATON ROUGE, LA 70821 °Nppf ,a` (225)219-5600 " ,,,,, FAX (225)381-7271 une 24, 2019 1-800-842-6630 wwwethics.la goy Kyle D. Kennington 501 Easton Private Drive Stonewall, LA 71078 Re: Board Docket No. 2019-561 Dear Mr. Kennington: The Louisiana Board of Ethics, at its June 21, 2019 meeting, considered your request for an advisory opinion as to whether you would be prohibited from serving on the Desoto Parish Police Jury while you are employed as Senior Vice President of Community Bank of Louisiana. FACTS PROVIDED You stated that you are currently employed as the Senior Vice President of Community Bank of Louisiana and are considering running in a future election to serve on the Desoto Parish Police Jury. You are not paid on a commission basis and would not be the officer of record for any accounts the Desoto Parish Police Jury may have with the Community Bank of Louisiana. If elected to serve on the Desoto Parish Police Jury, you would recuse yourself on any matters related to the Community Bank of Louisiana. LAW 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 unless such services are neither performed for nor compensated by any person from who such public servant would be prohibited by R.S. 42:1115A(1) or(B) from receiving a gift. La. R.S. 42:1115A(1) provides that no public servant shall solicit or accept, directly or indirectly, any thing of economic value as a gift or gratuity from 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. La. R.S. 39:1233.1 provides that notwithstanding any provision of Chapter 15 of Title 42 of the Revised Statutes of 1950 or any other law to the contrary, any member of a local depositing authority, including the chief executive officer thereof, may serve as an officer, director, or employee, whether compensated or not, of any national or state bank; provided that he shall recuse himself from voting in favor of any such bank and shall disclose the reason for such recusal by filing same into the minutes or record of the local depositing authority and by forwarding a disclosure form to the Board of Ethics. AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER