3298

EXECUTIVE ORDERS

officer or employee and his official State duties and
responsibilities, or to accept a portion of any fee received
by another individual or entity for assistance which such
officer or employee would be prohibited from rendering by
this section.

Nothing in this section shall prevent an officer or
employee from assisting (a) his parent, spouse, or child or
(b) any individual or entity for whom he is serving as
guardian, executor, administrator, trustee, or other
personal fiduciary in a transaction involving the State
except in transactions in which he has participated or over
which he has official responsibility and provided that the
circumstances of such assistance shall have been disclosed
to the officer's or employee's agency head and approved by
him in advance of such assistance or (c) any member of the
public when it is part of his official duties to do so.

6. To participate in a transaction involving the
State in which an officer or employee has a direct interest
or to participate in a transaction involving the State to
which, to his knowledge, any of the following is a party:

(a)    any entity in which he has a direct
financial interest of which he may reasonably be expected to
know;

(b)    any entity of which he is an officer,
director, trustee, partner, or employee;

(c)    any entity with which he is negotiating or
has any arrangement concerning prospective employment;

(d)    any entity which is a party to an existing
contract with such officer or employee where such contract
when viewed in light of his participation in the transaction
results in a conflict or could reasonably be expected to
result in a conflict between the private interests of the
officer or employee and his official State duties;

(e)    any entity, either engaged in a transaction
involving the State or subject to regulation by the agency
of which he is an officer or employee, in which a direct
financial interest is owned by another entity in which the
officer or employee has a direct financial interest;

(f)    any entity which is a creditor or obligee
of such State officer or employee with respect to a thing of
economic value and which, by reason therefor, is in a
position to affect directly and substantially such officer's
or employee's economic interest.

The Board of Ethics may by written order suspend the
operation of this section, however, in whole or in part, as