FILE: DFK
GIFTS AND BEQUESTS
No public employee shall solicit or accept, directly or indirectly, anything 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 employee knows or reasonably should know that such person:
Conducts operations or activities which are regulated by the public employee's agency.
Has substantial economic interests which may be substantially affected by the performance or nonperformance of the public employee's official duty.
Provisions for other gifts, bonuses, or cash awards are discussed in the School Board's School Activity Funds Policies and Procedures Manual.
DONATIONS
The School Board may accept and administer any donation that may be made to it for educational or literary purposes. The School Board as donee shall administer the property entrusted to them in conformity with the directives contained in the act of donation and for that purpose the School Board is vested with all the necessary powers of administration.
GIFTS FROM VENDORS
Vendors shall be encouraged to benefit the school district by such incentives as reduced prices rather than benefiting individual employees by gifts. Employees of the Rapides Parish School Board shall not be permitted to accept personal gifts.
Ref: La. Rev. Stat. Ann. ยงยง17:381, 17:382, 17:383, 42:1115
Board minutes, 3-3-98, 4-16-02
Rapides Parish School Board