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Home My WebLink About1st Qtr 2021 INDEX State Ethics Commission Quarterly Rulings for First Quarter 2021 ADVICES (Ethics): 21-500 (Gerwick): Re: Whether the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act (“Ethics Act”), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq., would impose prohibitions or restrictions upon a School Director for the Grove City Area School District (“School District”) with regard to participating in discussions, votes, or other actions of the School District School Board involving George Junior Republic in Pennsylvania and its affiliated corporations, hereinafter collectively referred to as “George Junior Republic,” where the School Director’s wife is the Chief Financial Officer of George Junior Republic. 21-501 (Bird): Re: Whether the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act (“Ethics Act”), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq., would impose prohibitions or restrictions upon an individual serving as a Township Supervisor with regard to reviewing or voting on the subdivision/land development aspect of a developer’s proposed residential development, where the individual owns and resides with his family at a property that is adjacent to the proposed residential development. 21-502 (Conf): Re: Pursuant to the submitted facts, would the issuance of a Severance Payment by an Employer to an Employee constitute a “contingent and severance payment” prohibited by 65 Pa.C.S. § 1103(e) of the Pennsylvania Public Official and Employee Ethics Act? 21-503 (Silvetti): Re: Does the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act (“Ethics Act”), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq., place any prohibitions or restrictions upon you, as a Township Supervisor, from also simultaneously serving as a member of a municipal authority board? . 21-504-20-554 CL (Conf): Re: Does Section 1103(g) of the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act (“Ethics Act”), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1103(g), impose prohibitions or restrictions upon you, as a former A with Commonwealth Agency B in Unit C, with regard to your name appearing on routine - 1 - invoices submitted to Commonwealth Agency B for work that you perform on pre-existing contracts that your new employer has with Commonwealth Agency B, where such contracts involve Unit D? 21-505 (Dunn): Re: As City Treasure, can you direct work being performed by businesses that do not employ your husband, but are subsidiaries of the parent company of which your husband is employed? 21-506 (Bia): Re: Would the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act (“Ethics Act”), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq., prohibit you from serving in a compensated position as a Member of the Board of Directors of a startup company that has a leasing agreement with the City of Arnold (“City”) for space in the City’s municipal building? 21-507 (Conf): Re: Pursuant to the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act (“Ethics Act”), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq., as a Township Supervisor, can you participate in official actions of the Board of Supervisors to approve a land development project which is located on land/property that is adjacent to property on which you reside and operate a business? 21-508 (Conf): Re: Whether the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act (“Ethics Act”), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq., would impose employment restrictions upon a \[Former Public Official/Public Employee\], following his/her separation from the \[Governmental Entity\]? 21-509 (Penrose): Re: Whether the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act (“Ethics Act”), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq., would impose restrictions upon you with regard to performing work for a consultant engineering firm following termination of your employment as a Senior Civil Engineer Supervisor – Transportation with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (“PennDOT”)? 21-510 (Hafner-Blake): Re: Whether the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act (“Ethics Act”), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq., would impose employment restrictions upon a Member of the Pennsylvania Senate, following his separation from the Pennsylvania Senate? - 2 - 21-511 (Larson): Re: Whether the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act (“Ethics Act”), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq., would impose restrictions upon you with regard to performing work for a consultant engineering firm following termination of your employment as a Senior Civil Engineer Supervisor with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (“PennDOT”)? 21-512 (Evans): Re: Whether the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act (“Ethics Act”), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq., would impose restrictions upon you with regard to working as an employee of, or as a contractor to, a vendor that performs financial examinations following termination of your employment as an Insurance Company Examination Manager with the Pennsylvania Department of Insurance (“Department of Insurance”)? 21-513 (Elridge): Re: Pursuant to the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act (“Ethics Act”), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq., as a Member of Council for the Borough of Conneaut Lake (Borough), can you participate in official actions of Borough Council to approve exceptions to boat dock size limitations for Borough Council Members who rent mooring space at a Borough-owned lakefront park for their owner-built boat docks? OPINIONS (Lobby): 21-1001 (Campbell): Re: Whether, pursuant to the reporting requirements of Section 13A05(b)(5) of Pennsylvania’s Lobbying Disclosure Law (“Lobbying Disclosure Law”), 65 Pa.C.S. § 13A05(b)(5), and Section 55.1(g)(5) of the Lobbying Disclosure Regulations (Regulations), 51 Pa. Code § 55.1(g)(5), a registered principal would be required to disclose on its quarterly expense report the name, permanent business address and daytime telephone number of any individual, association, corporation, partnership, business trust or other business entity which contributed more than 10% of the total resources for lobbying as opposed to more than 10% of the total resources received by the principal during the reporting period. - 3 - ORDERS (Ethics): 1731-2 (Sivick): Re: This is a final adjudication of the State Ethics Commission ORDERS (SFI): 678-S (Harrsch): Re: This is a final adjudication of the State Ethics Commission as to the alleged delinquency and/or deficiency of Statement(s) of Financial Interests required to be filed pursuant to Sections 1104 and 1105 of the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act ("Ethics Act"), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq. 679-S (Still): Re: This is a final adjudication of the State Ethics Commission as to the alleged delinquency and/or deficiency of Statement(s) of Financial Interests required to be filed pursuant to Sections 1104 and 1105 of the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act ("Ethics Act"), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq. 680-S (Ingram): Re: This is a final adjudication of the State Ethics Commission as to the alleged delinquency and/or deficiency of Statement(s) of Financial Interests required to be filed pursuant to Sections 1104 and 1105 of the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act ("Ethics Act"), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq.\\ 681-S (Grevious): Re: This is a final adjudication of the State Ethics Commission as to the alleged delinquency and/or deficiency of Statement(s) of Financial Interests required to be filed pursuant to Sections 1104 and 1105 of the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act ("Ethics Act"), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq.\\ 682-S (Gustovich): Re: This is a final adjudication of the State Ethics Commission as to the alleged delinquency and/or deficiency of Statement(s) of Financial Interests required to be filed pursuant to Sections 1104 and 1105 of the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act ("Ethics Act"), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq.\\ 683-S (Parker-Berhan.): Re: This is a final adjudication of the State Ethics Commission as to the alleged delinquency and/or deficiency of Statement(s) of Financial Interests required to be filed pursuant to Sections 1104 and 1105 of the Public Official and Employee Ethics Act ("Ethics Act"), 65 Pa.C.S. § 1101 et seq.\\ - 4 -