2024-148- Charges - Nicole Babin (PUB)

Agency Tracking No. 2024-148 Page 5 of 8 IVF PROVISIONS OF LAW 17, The following provision of the Louisiana Code of Governmental Ethics is implicated by the alleged facts stated herein; La. R.S. 42:1112B(1) prohibits a public servant from participating in a transaction involving the governmental entity in which, to his actual knowledge, any member of his immediate family has a substantial economic interest. It La* R.S. 42:1102 provides the following relevant definitions when analyzing the above Section: (2)(a)(vi) provides that the "agency" for a public servant of a political subdivision it shall moan the agency in which the public servant serves. (12)def Ines"governmental entity"to mean the state or any political subdivision which employs the public employee or employed the former public employee or to which the elected official is elected, as the case may be. (13) defines"Immediate ediate family,"as the term relates to a public servant to mean his children the spouses of his children., his brothers and their spouses, his sisters and their spouses, his parents, his spouse,and the parents of his spouse. (15) defines "participate" to mean to take part in or to have responsibility for action of a govemmental entity or proceeding, personally, as a public servant of the governmental entity, through approval, disapproval, decision, recommendation, the rendering of advice, investigation, or the failure to act or perfonn a duty. (18) defines "public employee" to mean anyone, whether compensated or not, who is (i) an administrative officer or official of a governmental entity who is not filling an elective office; (ii) appointed by any elected official when acting in an official capacity, and the appointment is to a post or position wherein the appointee is to serve the governmental entity or an agency thereof, either as a. member of an agency, or as an employee thereof; (11i) engaged in the performance of a governmental function; (iv)under the supervision or authority