Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
A. State
Officer
1. Statewide elected officials-
Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State, State
Treasurer, Superintendent of Education, Commissioner of Agriculture,
Commissioner of Elections, Commissioner of Insurance.
2. Duly elected members of the Louisiana
Legislature.
3. Department head as
defined by Title 36 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes (secretary, deputy
secretary, undersecretary, assistant secretary, and the equivalent positions in
higher education and the offices of elected officials). For the purposes of
this policy, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of
the Senate shall be considered as being equivalent to secretary of their
respective chambers. No additional hierarchical levels of the chambers shall
assume department head status for the legislature without prior written
approval of the Commissioner of Administration.
B. State Employee
1. All employees below the level of state
officer.
C. Advisors and
consultants who are called upon to contribute time and services to the state
who are not otherwise required to be reimbursed through a contract for
professional, personal, consulting services in accordance with
R.S.
39:1481 et seq.
D. Members of boards, commissions, and
advisory councils required by federal or state legislation or
regulation.
E. Sponsored Travelers
1. Industrial inducement prospects, when
accompanied by a sponsoring state officer or employee, when engaged in official
state business.
2. Spouses of
statewide elected officials and other state officers to the level of secretary
of departments, when accompanied by the sponsoring state officer, and when
engaged in official state business. Spouses may only be transported on
state-owned and operated aircraft on a space-available, standby basis. The
provisions of this Part shall not apply to the spouse of the duly elected
governor of the state of Louisiana, when same is performing travel instead of
or on behalf of the governor, and thus is engaged in official business of the
state.
F. Sponsoring
State Traveler
1. The state officer or
employee who assumes responsibility for the travel of a sponsored traveler in
state-owned and operated aircraft by physically accompanying that sponsored
traveler.
G. Other
persons performing official state business who have prior written approval for
travel from the Commissioner of Administration, subject to the general
provisions of air travel authorization provided in Subchapter D, §2915;
Subchapter E, §2919; and Subchapter F,
§2925 of these
rules.
AUTHORITY NOTE:
Promulgated in accordance with
R.S.
39:231.
