38-541. Definitions
In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. " Business" includes any enterprise, organization, trade, occupation or profession, whether or not operated as a legal entity or for profit, including any business trust, corporation, partnership, joint venture or sole proprietorship.
2. " Compensation" means anything of value or advantage, present or prospective, including the forgiveness of debt.
3. " Controlled business" means any business in which the public officer or any member of his household has an ownership or beneficial interest, individually or combined, amounting to more than a fifty per cent interest.
4. " Dependent business" means any business in which the public officer or any member of his household has an ownership or beneficial interest, individually or combined, amounting to more than a ten per cent interest, and during the preceding calendar year the business received from a single source more than ten thousand dollars and more than fifty per cent of its gross income.
5. " Gift" includes any gratuity, special discount, favor, hospitality, service, economic opportunity, loan or other benefit received without equivalent consideration and not provided to members of the public at large.
6. " Local public officer" means a person holding an elective office of an incorporated city or town, a county or a groundwater replenishment district established under title 48, chapter 27.
7. " Member of household" means a public officer's spouse and any minor child of whom the public officer has legal custody.
8. " Public officer" means a member of the legislature and any judge of the court of appeals or the superior court, or a person holding an elective office the constituency of which embraces the entire geographical limits of this state. Members of Congress are not public officers as defined in this paragraph.
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