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Ethics Board Docket Nos. 2024-�83 <br /> Page4of10 <br /> §1102. Definitions <br /> Unless the context clearly indicates otherwise,the following words and terms,when used in <br /> this Chapter, shall have the follawing meanings: <br /> (2)(a){vi)defines"a�"forpublic servants ofpolitical subdivisions,it sha�l mean <br /> the agency in which the public servant sexves, except that for members of any <br /> governing authority and for the elec�ed or appointed chief executive of a <br /> goverzunental entity, it shall mPan the governrnental entity. Public servants of <br /> political subdivisions shall include, but shall not be limited to, elected officials ay3d <br /> public employees of municipalities, parishes, and otl�er politieal subdivisions; <br /> sheriffs and their employees; district attoxneys and their employees; coxoners and <br /> their employees; and clerks of col,u-t and their employees. to mean a department, <br /> office,division,agency,commission,baard,committee,or other organizational unit <br /> of a�overnmental entity. <br /> (3}def nes"a�encv head"ta mean the ehief executive or administrative afficer oF an <br /> agency or any member of a board ar cornmissiora who exercises supervision over the <br /> agency. <br /> (11)defines" overnin authorit "to mean the body which exercises fihe legislative <br /> fiinctions �f a political subdivision. <br /> (12} "�overnmental entity" means the state or any political subdivision which <br /> employs the public employee or err�ploy�d the former public employee or to which <br /> the elected official is elected, as the case may be. <br /> (13) deFines"immediate farnilv" as the term relates to a public servant to mean his <br /> children, the spouses�f his children, his brothers and their spauses, his sisters a�ic1 <br /> their spauses, k�is parents, his spause, and the parents of his spouse, <br /> (18) defines"pubiic employee"ta mean anyane, whether compensated or not, who <br /> is (i) an administrative officer or official of a gavernrnental entity who is not filling <br /> an elective office. {ii} appainted by any elected off cial when acting in an ofticial <br /> capacity, and the appointrnent is to a post or position wherein the appointee is to <br /> serve the governmental entity or an agency thereof,either as a member of an agency, <br /> or as an employee thereof. (iii) engaged in the performance of a governrnental <br /> t=unction, (iv) under the supervision or auihority of an elected oiiicial or another <br /> enraployee of the governmental entity. <br /> (19) defines "public servant" to mean a public eznployee or an elected official. <br />