La. Admin. Code tit. 4 § V-2905

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024
Section V-2905 - Classes of Travelers
A. State Officer
1. Statewide elected officials- Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State, State Treasurer, Superintendent of Education, Commissioner of Agriculture, Commissioner of Elections, Commissioner of Insurance.
2. Duly elected members of the Louisiana Legislature.
3. Department head as defined by Title 36 of the Louisiana Revised Statutes (secretary, deputy secretary, undersecretary, assistant secretary, and the equivalent positions in higher education and the offices of elected officials). For the purposes of this policy, the Speaker of the House of Representatives and the President of the Senate shall be considered as being equivalent to secretary of their respective chambers. No additional hierarchical levels of the chambers shall assume department head status for the legislature without prior written approval of the Commissioner of Administration.
B. State Employee
1. All employees below the level of state officer.
C. Advisors and consultants who are called upon to contribute time and services to the state who are not otherwise required to be reimbursed through a contract for professional, personal, consulting services in accordance with R.S. 39:1481 et seq.
D. Members of boards, commissions, and advisory councils required by federal or state legislation or regulation.
E. Sponsored Travelers
1. Industrial inducement prospects, when accompanied by a sponsoring state officer or employee, when engaged in official state business.
2. Spouses of statewide elected officials and other state officers to the level of secretary of departments, when accompanied by the sponsoring state officer, and when engaged in official state business. Spouses may only be transported on state-owned and operated aircraft on a space-available, standby basis. The provisions of this Part shall not apply to the spouse of the duly elected governor of the state of Louisiana, when same is performing travel instead of or on behalf of the governor, and thus is engaged in official business of the state.
F. Sponsoring State Traveler
1. The state officer or employee who assumes responsibility for the travel of a sponsored traveler in state-owned and operated aircraft by physically accompanying that sponsored traveler.
G. Other persons performing official state business who have prior written approval for travel from the Commissioner of Administration, subject to the general provisions of air travel authorization provided in Subchapter D, §2915; Subchapter E, §2919; and Subchapter F, §2925 of these rules.

La. Admin. Code tit. 4, § V-2905

Promulgated by the Office of the Governor, Division of Administration, LR 10:201 (March 1984).
AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 39:231.