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Regular Session, 2012
SENATE BILL NO. 658
BY SENATORS LONG AND GALLOT
ETHICS. Provides for an exception to the prohibition of a public servant from doing
business with a person who has a business relationship with the agency of the public servant
under certain circumstances. (4/1/12)
AN ACT1
To enact R.S. 42:1123(42), relative to conflicts of interest; to provide for an exception from2
the Code of Governmental Ethics to allow certain local government officials to3
contract with a public utility that does business with certain local governing4
authorities in certain instances; to provide an effective date; and to provide for5
related matters.6
Be it enacted by the Legislature of Louisiana:7
Section 1. R.S. 42:1123(42) is hereby enacted to read as follows: 8
ยง1123. Exceptions9
This Part shall not preclude:10
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(42) A legal entity in which an elected official of a parish governing12
authority of a parish with a population of twenty-three thousand or less13
according to the latest federal decennial census has a controlling interest from14
bidding on or contracting with a public utility company if the only relationship15
the governing authority has with the public utility company is a standard,16
nonexclusive franchise agreement.17 SB NO. 658
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Section 2. This Act shall become effective on April 1, 2012.1
The original instrument and the following digest, which constitutes no part
of the legislative instrument, were prepared by Lauren Bailey.
DIGEST
Present law prohibits a public servant or a legal entity in which he exercises control or has
an interest in excess of 25% from accepting anything of economic value, for services
rendered, from a person who has a business relationship with the agency of the public
servant.
Proposed law provides for an exception to present law to allow a legal entity in which an
elected official of a parish governing authority of a parish with a population of 23,000 or less
according to the latest federal decennial census has a controlling interest to bid on or contract
with a public utility company if the only relationship the governing authority has with the
public utility company is a standard, nonexclusive franchise agreement.
Effective April 1, 2012.
(Adds R.S. 42:1123(42))