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Subdivisions (e), (f), and (g) of Government Code section 89503 shall apply to the <br />prohibitions in this section. <br />(8.2) Section 8.2. Loans to Public Officials. <br />(A) No elected officer of a state or local government agency shall, from the date of his or <br />her election to office through the date that he or she vacates office, receive a personal loan from <br />any officer, employee, member, or consultant of the state or local government agency in which <br />the elected officer holds office or over which the elected officer's agency has direction and <br />control. <br />(B) No public official who is exempt from the state civil service system pursuant to <br />subdivisions (c), (d), (e), (f), and (g) of Section 4 of Article VII of the Constitution shall, while he <br />or she holds office, receive a personal loan from any officer, employee, member, or consultant <br />of the state or local government agency in which the public official holds office or over which the <br />public official's agency has direction and control. This subdivision shall not apply to loans made <br />to a public official whose duties are solely secretarial, clerical, or manual. <br />(C) No elected officer of a state or local government agency shall, from the date of his or <br />her election to office through the date that he or she vacates office, receive a personal loan from <br />any person who has a contract with the state or local government agency to which that elected <br />officer has been elected or over which that elected officer's agency has direction and control. <br />This subdivision shall not apply to loans made by banks or other financial institutions or to any <br />indebtedness created as part of a retail installment or credit card transaction, if the loan is made <br />or the indebtedness created in the lender's regular course of business on terms available to <br />members of the public without regard to the elected officer's official status. <br />(D) No public official who is exempt from the state civil service system pursuant to <br />subdivisions (c), (d), (e), (f), and (g) of Section 4 of Article VII of the Constitution shall, while he <br />or she holds office, receive a personal loan from any person who has a contract with the state or <br />local government agency to which that elected officer has been elected or over which that <br />elected officer's agency has direction and control. This subdivision shall not apply to loans made <br />by banks or other financial institutions or to any indebtedness created as part of a retail <br />installment or credit card transaction, if the loan is made or the indebtedness created in the <br />lender's regular course of business on terms available to members of the public without regard <br />to the elected officer's official status. This subdivision shall not apply to loans made to a public <br />official whose duties are solely secretarial, clerical, or manual. <br />(E) This section shall not apply to the following: <br />1. Loans made to the campaign committee of an elected officer or candidate for elective <br />office. <br />2. Loans made by a public official's spouse, child, parent, grandparent, grandchild, <br />brother, sister, parent-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, nephew, niece, aunt, uncle, or first <br />cousin, or the spouse of any such persons, provided that the person making the loan is not <br />acting as an agent or intermediary for any person not otherwise exempted under this section. <br />3. Loans from a person which, in the aggregate, do not exceed five hundred dollars <br />($500) at any given time. <br />6 <br />