(a) An approving authority may approve a request to accept an honorarium provided the following conditions are met:

1. (1) State personnel, equipment, and time are not used in preparing the service for which an honorarium is offered;
2. (2) no State funds (including funds from any New York State public authority or any public benefit corporation) are used to pay the covered person’s attendance, registration, travel, lodging, or meal expenses related to the service for which an honorarium is offered;
3. (3) if the service is to be performed during the covered person’s official work day, he or she must charge accrued leave (other than sick leave) to perform such service;

4. (4) if the honorarium is offered by or on behalf of an interested source, all of the following criteria must be met:

   1. (i) It is not reasonable, under the circumstances, to infer that the honorarium was intended to influence the covered person in the performance of his or her official duties.
   2. (ii) The honorarium could not, under the circumstances, reasonably be expected to influence the covered person in the performance of his or her official duties.
   3. (iii) The honorarium is not, under the circumstances, intended as a reward for any official action on his or her part;
5. (5) The approving authority determines that the offeror is not being used to conceal that the honorarium is actually offered or paid by an interested source; and
6. (6) Performing the service for which the honorarium is offered and accepting the honorarium do not violate Public Officers Law section 74.