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DISCUSSION:
STATE ETHICS COMMISSION
308 FINANCE BUILDING
HARRISBURG, PENNSYLVANIA 17120
January 17, 1980
OPINION NUMBER 80 -006
Stanley A. Miller, Commissioner
Bureau of Professional & Occupational Affairs
6th Floor, Transportation & Safety Building
Harrisburg, PA 17120
RE: Secretary of the Veterinary Board Serving on an Animal
Technician Advisory Committee of a Junior College.
On November 2, 1979, Stanley Miller, Commissioner of the
Bureau of Professional & Occupational Affiars advised us that
Dr. Lillian A. Giuliani, member and Secretary of the Veterinary
Board of Medical Examiners, has requested a ruling on the following
situation:
She has been requested to serve on the Animal Technician Advis-
ory Committee of Harcum Junior College.
The Veterinary Board of Medical Examiners sets the standards
for licensing Animal Technicians. They also have given the exami-
nation in this area, although an outside testing agency is being
employed in the future to do this work.
The issue is whether a member and Secretary of the Veterinary
Board of Medical Examiners may serve on an Animal Technician Advis-
ory Committee of a junior college?
Section 1 of the State Ethics Act requires that public offi-
cials "present neither a conflict nor the appearance of a conflict
with the public trust."
As long as Dr. Giuliani does not in any way participate in
the examining of any applicant from Harcum Junior College, she is
not giving the appearance of a conflict with the public trust.
Stanley A. Miller
January 17, 1980
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CONCLUSION:
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A member and secretary of the Veterinary Board of Medical
Examiners may serve on an Animal Technician Advisory Committee
of a junior college as long as he or she does not personally pass
on any application from a student, or a person who has graduated
from within one year, of that junior college.
Pursuant to Section 7(9)(i), this opinion is a complete de-
fense in any enforcement proceeding initiated by the Commission,
and evidence of good faith conduct in any other civil or criminal
proceeding, providing the requestor has disclosed truthfully all
the material facts and committed the acts complained of in reliance
on the advice given.
such.
This letter is a public record and will be made available as
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