Court Opinion

ID: 3463395
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2016-07-05 20:28:52.377685+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T12:45:59.583247
License: Public Domain

Dear Ms. Dixon:
In your letter dated December 6, 1988, you have requested an opinion of this office.  You state that the Audubon Park Commission has entered into a contract with the Audubon Institute, a private non-profit corporation, which operates the New Orleans Zoological Gardens and the Aquarium of the Americas.
The Institute would like to retain you under a contractual agreement, as Director of Operations for the Aquarium. The Commission formed the Institute for the purposes of operating and maintaining the Aquarium.
We are enclosing a copy of an opinion of this office, 88-618, to the Honorable Michael McCleary, State Representative, which deals with an almost identical set of facts.
Consistent with our earlier opinion it is the opinion of this office that if the relationship between you and the Institute is one of contract rather than "employment" as defined in R.S.42:62(3), the provisions of the Dual Officeholding Statute are not violated.
Thus, it is the opinion of this office that you may legally enter into a contract individually with the Audubon Institute to perform contractual consulting services for the Aquarium of the Americas because such a contractual relationship will not result in an "employment" as defined by the Louisiana Dual Officeholding Law.
Trusting that the foregoing sufficiently answers your inquiry, I remain
Sincerely,
                           WILLIAM J. GUSTE, JR. Attorney General
                       BY: ______________________________ KENNETH C. DEJEAN Chief Counsel
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