15 AAC 154.800. Prohibited activities

(a) No member, officer, or employee of the grantee shall have any personal or financial interest in any contract or subcontract for work to be performed in connection with the activities assisted under the grant agreement.

(b) No member of the governing body of the jurisdiction in which the project is undertaken or located and no other official of such locality or localities who exercises any functions or responsibilities with respect to the project during his or her tenure shall have any personal or financial interest in any contract or subcontract for work to be performed in connection with the activities assisted under the grant agreement.

(c) No grant funds shall be used for any partisan political activity or to further the election or defeat of any candidate for public office or to influence the approval or defeat of any ballot issue or to lobby any state agency or member or employee of the legislature.

(d) No grant funds may be used by or on behalf of the grantee to influence or attempt to influence an officer or employee of any federal agency, a member of Congress, or an employee of a member of Congress or in connection with the awarding of any federal contract, the making of any federal grant, the making of any federal loan, the entering into of any cooperative agreement, and the extension, continuation, renewal amendment or modification of any federal contract, grant, loan or cooperative agreement.

(e) No grant funds may be used for payment of any bonus or commission for the purpose of obtaining approval or concurrence under the grant agreement provided, however, that reasonable fees of a bona fide technical consultant, managerial, or other such services, other than actual solicitation, are not hereby prohibited if otherwise eligible as grant project costs.

(f) The grantee shall include in all subcontracts a provision prohibiting the expenditure of grant funds for purposes prohibited by subsections (a) - (e) of this section and shall require certification by such subcontractors of compliance with those provisions.

History: Eff. 6/11/96, Register 139

Authority: AS 18.55.100

AS 18.56.088

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