658 Cedar Street . As a part of its business, the Corporation provides local telephone directories, which may include both white and yellow pages. Legislators who live in the areas the Corporation serves receive copies of the directories at no charge at their homes. The Corporation also gets regular requests from its legislator customers for an additional copy of the directories for use in their legislative offices.
Legislators use their local directories to facilitate calling constituents in their home districts.
It is the Corporation's normal practice to charge for the provision of extra copies of the directory. However, if not prohibited by statute, the Corporation would like to provide legislators with their local area directories as a service. The gift of local district telephone directories is not prohibited by Minn. Stat. It falls within the exception to the general prohibition for provision of services to assist an official in the performance of official duties. While this gift is not prohibited, it may be subject to a reporting requirement.