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STATE OF LOUISIANA <br /> OF LO,1 DEPARTMENT OF STATE CIVIL SERVICE <br /> ��w (4N LOUISIANA BOARD OF ETHICS <br /> \A P.0.BOX 4368 <br /> * / * BATON ROUGE, LA 70821 <br /> •°o"F,oE•-ct• (225)219-5600 <br /> »o»•' <br /> FAX (225)381-7271 <br /> 1-800-842-6630 <br /> www.ethics.la.gov <br /> November 20, 2019 <br /> Mr. Robert A. Barbera <br /> President <br /> Barbera Chevrolet <br /> P.O. Box 280 <br /> Napoleonville, Louisiana 70390 <br /> Re: Ethics Board Docket No.2019-1103 <br /> Dear Mr. Barbera: <br /> The Louisiana Board of Ethics, at its November 15, 2019 meeting, considered your request for an <br /> advisory opinion as to whether Barbera Chevrolet is prohibited from selling vehicles to Assumption <br /> Parish or any of its subsidiaries,particularly the Assumption Parish Water Works District,while an <br /> employee's husband serves as a member of the Assumption Parish Police Jury. <br /> FACTS PROVIDED <br /> You stated that in the past the husband of an employee was fined for receiving a thing of economic <br /> value from Barbera Chevrolet at a time when the husband was serving as a member of the <br /> Assumption Parish Police Jury and Barbera Chevrolet was transacting business with the Assumption <br /> Parish Water Works District. In Board of Ethics Docket No. 2013-1355,the Board entered into a <br /> Consent Order with Myron Matherne finding he violated La. R.S. 42:1111C(2)(d) by receiving a <br /> thing of economic value through his wife's salary for services rendered to Barbera Chevrolet while <br /> he served as a member of the Assumption Parish Police Jury and Barbera Chevrolet was transacting <br /> business with the Assumption Parish Water Works District,which is part of Mr.Matherne's agency. <br /> A copy of the Consent Order is enclosed for your reference. <br /> LAWS <br /> La. R.S. 42:1111C(2)(d) provides that no public servant and no legal entity in which the public <br /> servant exercises control or owns an interest in excess of twenty-five percent,shall receive any thing <br /> of economic value for or in consideration of services rendered,or to be rendered,to or for any person <br /> during his public service unless such services are:(d)Neither performed for nor compensated by any <br /> person or from any officer,director,agent,or employee of such person,if such public servant knows <br /> or reasonably should know that such person has or is seeking to obtain contractual or other business <br /> or financial relationships with the public servant's agency. <br /> La. R.S. 42:1117 provides that no public servant or other person shall give,pay, loan, transfer, or <br /> deliver or offer 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 would be <br /> prohibited from receiving by any provision of this Part. <br /> AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER <br />