REQUESTED BY: Paul Kosch, President, First National Bank, David City, Nebraska

QUESTION:

1. Whether members of a board of trustees for a county hospital are required to file Statements of Financial Interests?

2. Whether there is a potential conflict of interest to be disclosed and other action to be taken in the case of a county hospital's funds being deposited in a bank in which that hospital board member is an officer and director?

3. Whether the insurance division or affiliate of the bank is denied the right to bid on insurance for the hospital?

REQUESTED BY: Robert H. Conner, Saline County Attorney

QUESTION: Must a county commissioner, engaged in a business that has transactions with other firms, which may have contracts with the county, disclose those firms with which he does business in his Statement of Financial Interests or in Statements of Potential Conflict of Interests?

CONCLUSIONS:

1. Such other firms need not be disclosed in the Statement of Financial Interests of the county commissioner.

2. Potential conflicts of interest may have to be disclosed under certain circumstances.

REQUESTED BY: Richard T. Smith

QUESTION: As legal advisor to the City of Beatrice, the City of Beatrice Planning and Zoning Commission, the City of Beatrice Board of Adjustment, the Beatrice Airport Authority, the Beatrice Board of Public Works, and the mayor and city council of the

City of Beatrice, you have asked whether the officeholders and employees of these entities are required to file Statements of Financial Interests pursuant to the provisions of section 49-1493, R.S.Supp., 1976.

CONCLUSION: No.

REQUESTED BY: Steven D. Burns

REQUESTED BY: Dennis J. Mullin, Attorney

QUESTION: Are the members of the Nebraska Poultry and Egg Development, Utilization and Marketing Committee required to file Statements of Financial Interests by reason of the provisions of subdivisions (7) and (10) of section 49-1493 of the Nebraska Political Accountability and Disclosure Act?

CONCLUSION: No

ANALYSIS:

REQUESTED: William W. Lyons

QUESTION: Are the directors of the Frenchman-Cambridge Irrigation District required to file Statements of Financial Interests pursuant to the provisions of Section 49-1493, R.S.Supp., 1976?

CONCLUSION: No

REQUESTED The Honorable Douglas Bereuter

QUESTION: Whether section 13 of LB186 would eliminate members of land-use planning commissions, zoning commissions, or authorities of the state or any county.

CONCLUSION: Section 49-1493 of LB186 or other similar legislation are enacted with the emergency clause and signed by the Governor on or before April 1, 1978.

REQUESTED: Judy R. Zaiman

QUESTION: What is the committee status of the Political Action Committee State Election Fund (PACSEF) established by the Omaha National Corporation for purposes of the Nebraska Political Accountability and Disclosure Act? Are there different filing and record keeping requirements for PACSEF if it is determined to be a separate segregated political education fund instead of an independent committee as defined in the Nebraska Political Accountability and Disclosure Act? If so what are the differences?

CONCLUSION:

REQUESTED BY: Byron W. Fallesen

QUESTION: References made to your letter of October 17, 1977 concerning a County Commissioner who is an employee and a controlling stock holder with his wife in an insurance agency which writes bid and performance bonds for a local contractor bidding for contracts to be awarded by the County Board of Commissioners.