REQUESTED BY: Gary Gustafson, Executive Secretary, Nebraska Power Review Board.

QUESTION: May a person who is a member of the Nebraska Power Review Board continue to serve in such capacity since being employed by the University of Nebraska as its General Counsel?

CONCLUSION

Yes.

ANALYSIS

The Nebraska Power Review Board is a statutory agency created by the Legislature to regulate certain aspects of public power in Nebraska.

REQUESTED BY: David L. Piester, Director, Legal Services of Southeast Nebraska

QUESTION: Is a lawyer, employed by a legal aid organization, when engaging in lobbying activities other than appearing before a legislative committee and setting forth for whom he appears, required to register as a lobbyist for each legal aid "client" served in a lobbying capacity . . . and accordingly file monthly reports for both himself and each such "client"?

CONCLUSION

REQUESTED BY: Terence B. Campbell

QUESTION: May an employee of the Penal Complex, who is an agent for a catalogue merchandiser, have goods from that catalogue approved by another employee of the Penal complex for purchase by inmates from their own funds?

CONCLUSION

Yes.

FACTS

REQUESTED BY: Roy Hahn, Attorney At Law

QUESTION: Does the Statement of Financial Interests required for the preceding calendar year pursuant to the provisions of section 49-1493, R.S.Supp., 1976, apply to the whole of the calendar year 1977 or just from the effective date of the Act, to wit: July 1,1977, to December 31, 1977?

CONCLUSION

The requirement of filing a Statement of Financial Interests for the preceding calendar year applies to the whole of the calendar year 1977 even though the Act did not become effective until July 1, 1977.

FACTS

REQUESTED BY: David A. Ludtke, Legal Counsel, Whelan for Governor

QUESTION: Must an incumbent, eligible for reelection, form a candidate committee and file a Statement of Organization upon raising, receiving or spending more than $400 prior to his filing for nomination and election to a different office when the funds raised and received were specifically for his campaign for nomination and election to the different office?

CONCLUSION

REQUESTED BY: The Honorable Larry D. Stoney, Senator, 4th District

QUESTION:

1. May funds received in a current campaign be used to make payments on a loan, the proceeds of which were for a campaign prior to July 1, 1977?

2. May unexpended funds, if any, after a current campaign be used to reimburse the candidate for prior payments made on that loan or to make payments on that loan?

CONCLUSION

1. See Analysis.

2. See Analysis.

FACTS

REQUESTED BY: The Honorable Loran Schmit, State Senator, 23rd District

QUESTION: May a senator receive expenses for room and board paid for by his host while attending a Conference on Alcohol and Sugar in Campos, Brazil, without the same constituting a conflict of interest?

CONCLUSION

Yes, but see analysis.

FACTS

REQUESTED BY: Larry Schwartz, President, National Order Systems, Inc.

QUESTION: May contribution be made to candidates and campaign committees by means of charging the same to credit cards?

CONCLUSION

Yes.

FACTS

REQUESTED BY: William W. Lyons, Attorney for McCook Public Power District.

QUESTION:

1. Do directors of a public power or rural power district who file for reelection have to file Statements of Financial Interests at the time they file for reelection if they have already filed the same for the prior calendar year on or before April 1 of the year of election?

REQUESTED BY: Willard Weinhold, Dawson County Attorney

QUESTION

1. Whether the employment of a county employee for additional services is a "contract" as contemplated by section 49-14,102, R.S.Supp., 1976 requiring the same to be awarded through an open and public process which includes prior public notice and subsequent availability for public inspection during the regular office hours of the contracting governmental body of the proposals considered and the contract awarded?