Opinion No. (1985)

Dear Honorable Brewster,

The Attorney General has received your request for an official opinion asking, in effect:

If an administrative officer has a conflict of interest in one proceeding before his/her administrative tribunal, would that same officer have a conflict of interest in all proceedings before that administrative tribunal?

To answer your question, we must first examine the particular agency in question to see if that agency has a specific "conflict of interest" statute. Numerous agencies have such statutes, yet each may contain something slightly different than another "conflict of…