Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 43 - NATURAL RESOURCES
Part XV - Office of Conservation-Surface Mining
Subpart 1 - General Information
Chapter 5 - Restriction of Financial Interests of Employees
Section XV-503 - Responsibility
Universal Citation: LA Admin Code XV-503
Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
A. The commissioner shall:
1. provide advice, assistance and
guidance to all state employees required to file statements pursuant to
§507;
2. promptly review the
statement of employment and financial interests and supplements, if any, filed
by each employee, to determine if the employee has correctly identified those
listed employment and financial interests which constitute a direct or indirect
financial interest in any surface coal mining operation or underground mining
operation;
3. resolve prohibited
financial interest situations by ordering or initiating remedial action or by
reporting the violations to the director who is responsible for initiating
action to impose the penalties of the Federal Act;
4. certify on each statement that review has
been made, that prohibited financial interests, if any, have been resolved and
that no other prohibited interests have been identified from the
statement;
5. submit to the
director such statistics and information as he or she may request to enable
preparation of the required annual report to Congress;
6. submit to the director the initial listing
and the subsequent annual listings of positions as required by
30 CFR 705.11(b), (c) and
(d);
7. furnish a blank statement 45 days in
advance of the filing date established by
§509. A to each state
employee required to file a statement; and
8. inform annually each state employee
required to file a statement with the commissioner of the name, address and
telephone number of the person whom they may contact for advice and
counseling.
B. Office employees performing any duties or functions under the Act shall:
1. have no direct or indirect financial
interest in coal mining operations;
2. file a fully completed statement of
employment and financial interest 120 days after these regulations become
effective or upon entrance to duty and annually thereafter on the specified
filing date; and
3. comply with
directives issued by persons responsible for approving each statement and
comply with directives issued by those persons responsible for ordering
remedial action.
AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 30:901-932.
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