No legislator, public officer or employee may request or receive an honorarium for a speech or service rendered that relates to the performance of public duties. For the purposes of this section, "honorarium" means payment of money, or any other thing of value in excess of one hundred dollars ($100), but does not include reasonable reimbursement for meals, lodging or actual travel expenses incurred in making the speech or rendering the service, or payment or compensation for services rendered in the normal course of a private business pursuit.

History: Laws 1993, ch. 46, § 38.

ANNOTATIONS

The Governmental Conduct Act does not generally prohibit a public employee from accepting another job. — The Governmental Conduct Act does not generally prohibit a public employee from having a second paying job as long as the employee discloses the job to the employee's employer, the employee is not being paid for work already performed as a public employee, and there is no conflict between the employee's public employment and secondary employment such that the positions are otherwise incompatible. 2025 Op. Ethics Comm'n No. 2025-02.