New York Codes, Rules and Regulations
Title 19 - DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Chapter XX - Commission on ethics and lobbying in Government
Part 930 - Honoraria
Section 930.5 - Conditions for approval
Universal Citation: 19 NY Comp Codes Rules and Regs ยง 930.5
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 12, March 20, 2024
(a) An approving authority may approve a request to accept an honorarium provided the following conditions are met:
(1) State
personnel, equipment, and time are not used in preparing the service for which
an honorarium is offered;
(2) no
State funds (including funds from any New York State public authority or any
public benefit corporation) are used to pay the covered person's attendance,
registration, travel, lodging, or meal expenses related to the service for
which an honorarium is offered;
(3)
if the service is to be performed during the covered person's official work
day, he or she must charge accrued leave (other than sick leave) to perform
such service;
(4) if the honorarium
is offered by or on behalf of an interested source, all of the following
criteria must be met:
(i) It is not
reasonable, under the circumstances, to infer that the honorarium was intended
to influence the covered person in the performance of his or her official
duties.
(ii) The honorarium could
not, under the circumstances, reasonably be expected to influence the covered
person in the performance of his or her official duties.
(iii) The honorarium is not, under the
circumstances, intended as a reward for any official action on his or her
part;
(5) The approving
authority determines that the offeror is not being used to conceal that the
honorarium is actually offered or paid by an interested source; and
(6) Performing the service for which the
honorarium is offered and accepting the honorarium do not violate Public
Officers Law section 74.
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