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State Employee (G.L. c. 268A, § 6) Legal Opinions

Formal legal opinions by the State Ethics Commission about state employees participating in matters in which they, their family members, or a business organization they are affiliated with has a financial interest
  • EC-COI-79-16

    A member of the General Court may continue to work as a consultant for a private firm and for a private school paid from federal funds without violating § 4 and may participate as a member of the General Court in matters affecting the private employer's financial interest without violating § 6 because the enactment of general legislation is specifically excluded from the definition of "particular matter".

  • EC-COI-79-40

    What issues arise for a state employee who would like to privately invest in a small business when his state employee duties require him to assist small businesses.

  • EC-COI-80-43

    What issues arise from a member of the General Court and an attorney engaged in the private practice of law who has entered into an office-sharing arrangement with other attorneys, one of whom is a registered legislative agent?

  • EC-COI-80-46

    A legislative aide may also serve as an elected town selectman subject to the restrictions set forth in §§ 4 and 6 of the conflict of interest law.

  • EC-COI-80-102 

    An attorney in private practice who is also a part-time assistant district attorney may continue to privately represent a school committee client subject to the restrictions set forth in §§ 4 and 6 of the conflict of interest law.

  • EC-COI-82-2

    May a special state employee serve as a consultant for a private organization?

  • EC-COI-82-39

    Sections 4 and 6 of the conflict of interest law apply to a legislative staffer who is elected to the board of selectmen in a town.

  • EC-COI-82-115

    Section 6 issue regarding an officer of a Bank in the commonwealth who is also a member of the Massachusetts Home Mortgage Finance Agency.

  • EC-COI-82-172

    A member of the General Court who is also an attorney in private practice may represent a private company without violating §§ 4 and 6 of the conflict of interest law because the proposed representation involves appearances before local licensing boards, and not state agencies. Any activities involving the filing of applications for licenses with a state agency would fall within the exemption to § 4 involving "ministerial matters." Section 6 prohibits the member from participating in any particular matter in which he or a business organization which employs him has a financial interest except that the enactment of general legislation is specifically excluded from the definition of "particular matter." Section 6, however, prohibits the member from participating as a member of the General Court in any special legislation affecting the financial interest of the Company and would also require the member to file a disclosure of that matter and of the member’s financial interests therein with the Ethics Commission.

  • EC-COI-82-176

    May a state employee perform classroom instruction for a driver education course while simultaneously employed by the RMV?

  • EC-COI-83-116 

    A District Court Judge may handle cases involving driver education and alcohol treatment programs administered by a non-profit corporation that employs the Judge's step-son
    pursuant to a contract awarded to the non-profit by the Department of Mental Health Division of Alcoholism provided that the Judge complies with §§ 6 and 23 of the conflict of interest law.

  • EC-COI-83-25

    A  state agency head is advised about the restrictions in §§ 6, 7 and 23 of the conflict of interest law in connection with a contract involving the state agency and a partnership in which the state employee serves as a partner, where the day to day administration of the contract has been delegated to a company in which the state employee formerly served as an officer.

  • EC-COI-83-27

    The superintendent of a state agency under the Department of Mental Health may accept a position with an entity that contracts with DMH subject to the restrictions of §§ 4, 6, 7 and 23 of the conflict of interest law. 

  • EC-COI-83-34

    A state employee who is an attorney in private practice and who participates in investing agency funds is subject to §§ 6 and 23 of the conflict of interest law if funds were invested with a Bank with which the state employee privately provides legal services.

  • EC-COI-84-2

    A full-time municipal water department employee does not violate the conflict of interest law by also serving as a part-time special police officer in the same municipality because he qualifies for an exemption under § 20.

  • EC-COI-84-6

    A state employee can also serve on the board of directors of a private company that contracts with state agencies without violating the conflict of interest law but is subject to the restrictions under §§ 4, 6 and 23(b)(2).

  • EC-COI-84-10

    The Commissioner of a state agency may also serve on the board of directors of a bank and hold a controlling interest in the bank’s shares without violating the conflict of interest law, subject to the restrictions in §§ 4, 6, 7 and 23(c).

  • EC-COI-84-18

    A member of the Special Commission on Hazardous Waste Liability established by St. 1983, c. 7, s.13. to study remedies available to the Commonwealth and to persons who are harmed by the release of hazardous materials who is also an officer of a company which has an interest in a matter which the Special Commission plans to review is informed that he is a state employee subject to the restrictions of §§ 4, 6 and 23 of the conflict of interest law.

  • EC-COI-84-22

    A state employee involved in licensing who also holds a license does not violate the conflict of interest law by operating a business or being employed privately within the industry that requires the license, subject to the restrictions in §§ 4, 6, 23(b)(2) and 23(c).

  • EC-COI-84-35

    A state university employee who is also the chair of the board of selectmen may also serve as an elected county commissioner subject to the provisions of §§ 11 and 13 of the conflict of interest law.  If elected as a county commissioner, he would be required to resign his board of selectmen appointment to a county advisory board.  As a state employee, he is subject to the provisions of §§ 4 and 6 of the conflict of interest law.  Finally, as a state, county and municipal employee, he is subject to § 23 of the conflict of interest law.

  • EC-COI-84-40

    A member of the State Ethics Commission may also serve as Corporation Counsel for the City of Boston subject to the restrictions of §§ 4, 6, 17 and 23(c) of the conflict of interest law.

  • EC-COI-84-55

    A Statewide Health Coordinating Council member is advised that Council members are state employees for conflict of interest law purposes and are subject to the restrictions set forth in §§ 4, 6, 7 and 23(c).

  • EC-COI-84-81

    A member of the Board of Registration in Nursing may also serve on an accreditation panel of the National League of Nurses, subject to the restrictions contained in §§ 4, 6 and 23 of the conflict of interest law.

  • EC-COI-84-71

    A Massachusetts Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation employee (CEDAC) is prohibited under § 4 of the conflict of interest law from acting as agent for a non-profit in which he serves as both an officer and board member in connection with an application submitted to CEDAC. As a CEDAC employee, he is also subject to the restrictions in §§ 6 and 23 of the law.

  • EC-COI-84-104

    A Worcester State Hospital Board of Trustees member may participate as a Board member in transferring surplus hospital property to the Worcester Business Development Corporation and in a lawsuit over the transfer of the property where the board chair and an employee of his private employer are WBDC board members, subject to the restrictions in §§ 6 and 23(b)(3) of the conflict of interest law.

  • EC-COI-84-119

    The Massachusetts Technology Park Corporation is advised that §§ 6 and 23(c) of the conflict of interest law apply to employees of private member corporations that donate employee services to the MTPC as well at to MTPC board members whose corporations donate services to the MTPC.

  • EC-COI-84-144

    The chairman of a board of registration may participate in the license application of a fellow board member subject to the provisions of §23(b)(3) of the conflict of interest law.  The board member applying for the license is subject to §§ 6 and 23(b)(2) of the law.

  • EC-COI-85-2

    A member of a state board of registration may also serve as a member of the board of directors of a regional organization providing educational services to individuals subject to the board's jurisdiction. However, the member may neither represent the organization in any state matter, nor officially participate in matters affecting the organization's financial interest.

  • EC-COI-85-14

    A member of the General Court would not be disqualified from voting on most banking legislation if his wife were named as a member of the board of directors of a bank, however, he should avoid making decisions which are unduly affected by his wife's affiliation with the bank.

  • EC-COI-85-15

    A developer who also serves as an unpaid member of a state board is a special state employee. He may neither submit private proposals on property under the control of his board, nor officially participate in decisions in which he has a financial interest. He may seek development financing from other state agencies following his compliance with the disclosure provisions of § 7(d).

  • EC-COI-85-19

    A member of the Massachusetts Historical Commission (MHC) who also owns a corporation which may have an interest in a matter before the MHC must comply with §4. Neither he nor his partner may appear on behalf of the corporation or receive compensation in relation to the matter. To avoid violating §4 or §5, the corporation should hire for the MHC proceedings an agent or attorney with no ownership interest in the company.

  • EC-COI-85-21

    A general partner of consulting firm may accept a consultant contract with the Executive Office of Energy Resources, subject to the limitations of §§ 4, 6 and 23. Specifically, he may not represent the firm before EOER, share in any fees received by the firm from EOER grant recipients, or participate officially in EOER matters in which the firm has a financial interest.

  • EC-COI-85-26

    A General Court member whose legislative employee plans to marry his daughter, is subject to the §23 standards of conduct in his official dealings with his employee. For example, he must grant salary increases, and vacation leave which are consistent with objective personnel criteria applicable to other employees. He is not subject to the mandatory disqualification of § 6 because his son-in-law would not be an immediate family member.

  • EC-COI-85-28

    A full-time state employee who wishes to start a business is subject to several restrictions under the conflict of interest law. He may neither perform work on referrals from a state agency, nor act as the agent of his business in seeking contracts with state agencies. He may have a financial interest in a state contract only if he qualifies for an exemption under §7. Once he leaves his state position, he may not work privately on matters which previously came before him in his state position.

  • EC-COI-85-32

    An attorney who works in a state agency may conduct her own real estate business subject to certain limitations. In particular, she may not take any action as a state employee with respect to any property or person with whom she does, or expects to do, business, nor may her business receive a commission from the purchase or sale of state property unless certain special conditions have been satisfied.

  • EC-COI-85-33

    An administrative official at a state educational facility and a management representative on the Board of Regents' Health and Welfare Trust Fund may also serve on the Board of Directors of a health maintenance organization.

  • EC-COI-85-53

    A full-time state employee may serve on the board of directors of a non-profit corporation. She may not act as the agent or attorney for the corporation before any state agency nor may she participate as a state employee in matters affecting the corporation. Since her spouse, the director of a state agency, may have subsequent official dealings with the corporation, his future decisions should be based on objective standards and should not create the impression of being unduly affected by her position on the board.

  • EC-COI-85-54

    A president of a state educational institution may also serve as director of a bank. However, he may not receive compensation from or act as agent of the bank in matters such as bank audits and bank applications to state agencies, nor can he participate as president of the educational institution in maters in which the bank has a financial interest.

  • EC-COI-85-55

    A full-time state employee who changes her employment status to contractor with the same agency would remain a state employee because she would continue to perform services for the state agency. She may submit a bid to her agency to provide services under a contract provided that in her state capacity she does not participate in her agency's decision to contract out such services.

  • EC-COI-85-57

    A full-time employee of a state educational institution may consult to a firm to perform private consulting work for private colleges and out-of-state universities. He is also prohibited from participating as a state employee with respect to any contracts the educational institution has with the firm.

  • EC-COI-85-67

    A member of a state board who is also a trustee of a local board which receives state board funds may not act as agent for his local board in connection with funding applications to the state board. He is further prohibited from taking actions as a state board member in connection with any matters in which his local board has a financial interest.

  • EC-COI-85-69

    A former state employee is advised that he will become a state employee in connection with contracts his firm may be awarded by two state agencies, and that he will need to comply with §§ 6 and 7 of the conflict of interest law if he were to work on general legislation under one contract and special legislation under the other.

  • EC-COI-85-70

    The sole proprietor of a company may contract with a state agency which employs his wife because she has no financial interest in the company and does not participate in the management or control of the company. She may not participate as a state employee in the contract because her husband has a financial interest in the contract She must also avoid using her state agency resources such as copy machines, telephones and automobiles to further her husband's business. Additionally, she may not act as the agent or representative of her husband's company in its dealings with state agencies.

  • EC-COI-85-71

    The head of a state agency may hire an employee who is married to a unit manager within the same state agency as long as he complies with his customary agency hiring procedures and does not otherwise grant undue preferential treatment. Once the employee is hired, the unit manager will be subject to several restrictions in his official dealings with his wife. He may not participate as unit manager in any matters affecting his wife's financial interest, including salary and promotional determinations and other terms and conditions of employment because he will make job assignments to his wife and participate in strategic decisions regarding her handling of cases, there is a risk that he may create the impression of undue favoritism to her because of their marital relationship. To dispel any impression of favoritism, his deputy should oversee his exercise of these responsibilities to insure that the assignments and decisions are based on objective criteria.

  • EC-COI-85-72

    Subject to certain conditions, an employee of the Commission for the Blind (MCB) may be a member of the board of directors of a private company. Section 4 prohibits him from representing the company in connection with a grant proposal to any state agency or otherwise acting as agent for the company in any particular matter in which the Commonwealth is a party or has a direct and substantial interest. Section 6 prohibits the employee from taking any official MCB action which would affect the financial interest of the company. Section 23 would prohibit the employee from using his contacts with the state to obtain favoritism or privileges in the awarding of contracts which may indirectly affect the company.

  • EC-COI-85-75

    Subject to certain limitations, the director of procurement for a state agency may serve as an unpaid member of the board of directors of a buying consortium which contracts with his agency. Section 6 would prohibit his participation as the director of procurement in any informal or formal decision-making concerning bids or contracts between the consortium and the agency, and also in bids of any organization competing with the consortium for the same contract. In performing periodic job performance evaluations of employees who will participate in the award or monitoring of contracts with the consortium, he must avoid using his official position to secure unwarranted privileges for the consortium and from conduct which creates the impression that the consortium will unduly enjoy his official favor.

  • EC-COI-86-3

    A state employee at the Secretary of State's office is considering a real estate venture that may seek limited partners which is overseen by the Secretary of State's office. Permissible but restrictions apply under sections 4, 5(d), 6 and 23.

  • EC-COI-86-6

    A state board member who is also president of a real estate development, contracting and property management company with matters that may come before the board is subject to the restrictions in §§ 4, 6, 7 and 23 of the conflict of interest law.
  • EC-COI-86-7

    Members of the state Designer Selection Board are special state employees required to comply with §§ 4, 5, 6, 7 and 23 of the conflict of interest law.
  • EC-COI-86-15

    A legislator who is also a licensed stockbroker may solicit and do business with municipal and county retirement boards subject to the restrictions set forth in §§ 4, 6 and 6A of the conflict of interest law.
  • EC-COI-86-20

    An employee of the Executive Office of Elder Affairs may serve on the board of a non-profit organization that receives EOEA funding subject to the restrictions set forth in §§ 4 and 6 of the conflict of interest law.
  • EC-COI-86-22

    A special state employee is subject to the restrictions of §§ 4(c), 6 and 23 of the conflict of interest law in matters involving her private business interests that may involve state agencies.
  • EC-COI-86-24

    A member of the General Court may represent his family farm in connection with applying for an agricultural restriction from the Department of Food and Agriculture subject to the restrictions of §§ 4, 6, 7 and 23(b)(2) of the conflict of interest law.
  • EC-COI-87-3

    Two members of the board of directors of the Community Economic Development Assistance Corporation are special state employees and may continue their outside activities, subject to certain conditions.

  • EC-COI-87-4

    A member of the General Court may continue employment as a consultant to a company as long as his compensation is not derived from any contracts between the company and the state, and he refrains from appearing before state agencies in connection with state contracts or other particular matters.

  • EC-COI-87-11

    A member of the general court must abstain from participating in any particular matter relating to a proposed project site which is located adjacent to real estate owned by a trust of which his father is a beneficiary.

  • EC-COI-87-13

    A chairman of a state agency may serve on the board of directors of a bank mutual fund, subject to provisions.

  • EC-COI-87-20

    A state employee who is on a leave of absence from a private firm which provides contractual services to state agencies must abstain from participating in matters which will financially affect his firm.

  • EC-COI-87-22

    Section 3 prohibits a state agency head from receiving for himself a gift of substantial value relating to duties which the official has performed.

  • EC-COI-87-29

    A newly-hired state employee may receive deferred compensation from his former law firm for services performed prior to becoming a state employee, but must abstain from participating as a state employee in all matters affecting the financial interest of the firm's partners while he remains a partner in the firm's investment fund. His receipt from the firm of free tax preparation services for the current year would not violate section 23 because the firm makes the same service available to all former employees similarly situated.

  • EC-COI-87-30

    A state employee who has been accepted into an uncompensated college fellowship program must comply with section 23 whenever he participates as a state employee in matters affecting the college.

  • EC-COI-87-39

    Members of the Massachusetts Corporation for Educational Telecommunications (MCET) must observe the abstention requirements of both section 6 and St. 1982, c. 560 in connection with matters which affect the financial interest of members or their business organizations. In most instances, members may seek exemptions from section 6 from their appointing officials.

  • EC-COI-87-41

    A Chief Probation Officer in a district court may not supervise an immediate family member, unless the First Justice of that Court, whom the Ethics Commission has determined to be the employee's appointing official for the purposes of the conflict law, makes the appropriate written determination pursuant to section 6.

  • EC-COI-88-17

    A full-time state employee may become an unpaid board of trustees member for an organization for the homeless subject to certain restrictions. Section 4(c) would prohibit the employee from acting as an agent or representative for the organization before state agencies on matters in which the state has a direct and substantial interest. This section would not prohibit the employee from participating in internal board of director discussions including matters in which the state has an interest. An exemption from section 4(c) would not be available since the employee's official duties do not specifically authorize membership on the Board o f trustees. If the state employee's duties require her to participate in a matter which would financially affect the Board, she must comply with a section 6 exemption to avoid a violation of that section.

  • EC-COI-88-23

    A full-time police officer traffic-report in a state agency whose official duties include gathering and providing commuter traffic data to the local media, including a local television station, may accept a part-time private consulting position with the television station as a traffic analyst on major construction projects in the Boston area. The private work will be done during the officer's private hours, using only private vehicles, equipment and materials and would not under section 4(a) be in connection with particular matters in which his state agency has a direct and substantial interest. The state employee would also be subject to the provisions of section 6 and cannot participate as a state employee in any matter which could affect the television station's financial interest.

  • EC-COI-89-5

    The chairman of the board of regents of higher education may also serve as "of counsel" to a law firm which represents clients in matters within the official responsibility of the board of regents, subject to certain conditions. He must abstain from participating as chairman in any matter in which his firm represents a client, and must arrange to have the firm segregate from his compensation any fees connected with representation in board-related matters. Because his of counsel relationship does not have the attributes of a partnership, the firm's partners may represent private clients in matters within the official responsibility of the board.

  • EC-COI-89-11

    A state employee who wishes to resign and accept a consultant contract with the same state agency must comply with the conditions

  • EC-COI-89-12

    A member of the judiciary may accept membership on the board of advisors to a hospital, subject to certain limitations. He must avoid appearing on behalf of the hospital before any state agencies and must dispel any appearance of undue favoritism as a judge towards the hospital.

  • EC-COI-89-15

    An unpaid member of a state authority is a special state employee. He may retain his membership on the board of overseers of an institution that falls under the jurisdiction of his state authority because, in this case, the overseers do not have management authority over the institution, but instead have advisory authority. Therefore, the employee's status as a board member does not require his abstention under section 6, although proper disclosures under section 23 could be necessary in certain instances. As a special state employee, he must avoid acting as agent or attorney for the institution in connection with anything under his official responsibility at the authority.

  • EC-COI-89-16

    A state employee may participate in a matter involving a person who was, 10 years ago, a member of the same athletic club as the state employee, and whom the state employee has not seen in 10 years with the exception of three chance social occasions. To dispel the appearance of favoritism, however, the employee should make a public disclosure to his appointing authority of his past friendship, and be guided by the standards of conduct set forth in section 23.

  • EC-COI-89-29

    A special state employee who is also a private attorney may participate as a state employee in the re-sale of property previously purchased by his state agency from a former legal client of the special state employee. The employee must abstain from participating in particular matters that affect his own financial interests or those of his immediate family, partners, or associates, and must

  • EC-COI-90-4

    Section 4 of G.L. c. 268A permits housing court specialists to perform code inspection work for a housing authority.

  • EC-COI-90-5

    Partners in a law firm may perform legal services for a state agency subject to sections 6 and 23.

  • EC-COI-90-12

    A private attorney who volunteers to serve as a mediator for the state Department of Environmental Protection pursuant to a Department Environmental Protection/Boston Bar Association program will be considered a special state employee under G.L.c. 268A. The restrictions which G.L. c. 268A, section 4 places on the attorney's private law practice will be limited as long as the attorney does not serve as a mediator for DEP for more than 60 days in any 365-day period.

  • EC-COI-92-3

    A federal agency is an "organization" (but not necessarily a "business organization") within the meaning of G.L. c. 268A, section 6. Consequently, a state employee who negotiates for employment with a federal government agency may trigger the disclosure/determinations requirements of section 6. The federal government is not, however, treated as a single organization. Rather, each federal agency may be treated as a separate organization.

  • EC-COI-92-4

    A volunteer state employee may continue to receive compensation from his private employer, from whom he has obtained a leave of absence, provided that a specifically tailored state regulation authorizes the arrangement, notwithstanding the restrictions of G.L. c. 268A, section 4. The regulation would make the arrangement "as provided by law for the proper discharge of official duties" within the meaning of section 4. The state employee will, however, be subject to other guidelines under c. 268A.

  • EC-COI-92-8

    A member of the General Court may hold, and receive compensation for, an elective or appointive municipal office without the necessity of complying with the "purview" restrictions applicable to other state employees (found in G.L. c. 268A, section 4). Members of the General Court are exempt from the restrictions of section 4, except under limited circumstances.

  • EC-COI-92-12

    An appointed state employee, even if unpaid, may not solicit campaign contributions from persons under his regulatory jurisdiction, nor use state facilities or resources in such solicitations.

  • EC-COI-92-25

    A state environmental police officer may also be appointed to an unpaid municipal conservation commission, but he may not act as that commission's agent in relation to any particular matter within his state agency's purview. In effect, he may also not perform his state environmental police duties within that town.

  • EC-COI-92-35

    Section 7 prohibits an employee of a state agency from having a financial interest in state subsidized rents (or other state benefits paid directly to the state employee in exchange for goods or services) unless she can rely upon an exemption to section 7. In addition, section 23 prohibits a state employee from initiating private business relationships with person over whom she exercises official authority.

  • EC-COI-93-24

    268A and 268B would regulate the private law practice of a potential appointee to the State Ethics Commission. The potential appointee would be unable to take any official action on matters involving clients represented by her private law firm. Fellow members and associates of her firm (which is a Professional Corporation) are not "partners" for the purposes of section 5(d), unless there is reason to disregard the corporate entity.

  • EC-COI-94-1

    A staff member of the State Board of Retirement (Board) may seek election to the Board and may continue to hold his current full-time staff position if he is elected to the Board. If he is elected, he will not need a section 7(e) exemption, as the Board's enabling statute requires that the elected member be a current or retirement member of the state retirement system. Thus, he would serve on the Board by virtue of his state position, which is analogous to an ex officio post. Additionally, the Board member must be an active participant in the retirement system, the enabling statute contemplates that he will participate in particular matters that affect all retirement system participants, including himself. Therefore section 6 will not prohibit such participation.

  • EC-COI-94-10

    Using a five-factor jurisdictional test, a Governor's advisory commission is determined to be a public instrumentality for purposes of G.L. c. 268A. Members of the commission who are not otherwise employed by the Commonwealth will be subject to the conflict of interest law as special state employees.

  • EC-COI-94-11

    A state board member, who is also a member of the board of directors of a private corporation, is generally prohibited by G.L. c. 268A, section 6 from participating in certain activities of the state board which would affect the financial interests of the private corporation. However, because his official duties do not "require" him to participate in any matter pending before the state board, the member may simply abstain from participating in those activities affecting the corporation's financial interests, and need not publicly disclose the corporation's financial interest in the matters.

  • EC-COI-95-9

    A member of the General Court, privately employed as a residential loan officer, is advised that he may not accept commissions for initiating loans which involve state financial assistance programs. Also, his private work is subject to the restrictions of G.L. c. 268A, sections 4, 6 and 23.

  • EC-COI-97-3

    A charter school is a public rather than private entity and a state rather than a municipal agency. A charter school trustee who serves without election or appointment cannot obtain an exemption under section 6. A charter school trustee may serve on an elected school committee subject to certain restrictions under sections 4, 6, 17, and 23.

  • EC-COI-98-4

    A duly elected Massachusetts Turnpike Authority Retirement Board member may participate in board determinations on cost of living adjustments for retired Turnpike Authority employees.

  • EC-COI-04-2

    A state college professor may assign to his students textbooks he has written and receive royalties or other financial benefits from the students' purchase of the textbooks provided he first receives a written determination from his appointing authority pursuant to G.L. c. 268A, section 6.

  • EC-COI-06-3

    Where a state board member is also a municipal employee, the municipality's financial interest in a particular matter before the state board will not, in and of itself, bar the state board member from participating as such in the particular matter, because a municipality is not a business organization within the meaning of G. L. c. 268A. In the current opinion, the Commission reversed its prior rulings, to the extent that they hold otherwise, that a municipality is a business organization, which had followed Conflict Opinion No. 613, Attorney General Quinn (1974). The Commission also concluded that counties are not business organizations.

  • EC-COI-07-2

    Based on the Commission's reconsideration of the meaning of the term business organization in G. L. c. 268A, sections 6, 13 and 19, neither the common and ordinary meaning of business organization nor the legislative history and intent of the statute require or support the inclusion of charitable, non-profit organizations that do not substantially engage in business activities within the scope of the term. Accordingly, the Commission will not treat charitable, non-profit organizations that do not substantially engage in business activities as business organizations for conflict of interest law purposes.

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