Opinion No. (2003)

Dear Representative Reynolds,

¶ 0 This office has received your request for an official Attorney General Opinion in which you ask, in effect, the following question:

May a legislator, during his or her term of office, be employed for compensation as either a part-time consultant for, or executive director of, a community action agency?

I. Background

¶ 1 Your question concerns the propriety of an employment relationship between a current legislator and a community action agency. To analyze such propriety we must first set forth, (1) the constitutional and statutory provisions1 governing employment…