95-098-E     A municipality funding a nonprofit trust for historical and cultural preservation purposes when an alderman serves on the trust's board is not as such a violation of the conflict of interest laws as there are only competing public interests. There would be a violation of the conflict of interest laws if the trust compensated the alderman or the alderman received personal pecuniary benefits from contracts with the trust. [6, 22, H ,I]

95-105-E     The exception found in Section 25-4-105(4)(a) allows an officer of a bank serving as a municipality's depository to serve on the municipality's planning commission. The exception found in Section 25-4-105(4)(a) does not include a bank serving as a municipality's investment broker, paying agent, bond registrar, trustee and financial advisor. [2, 4, 5, 7, H]

94-099-E     A county airport board mat compensate a trust for an acquired easement as the trustees include an airport board member's three adult children who are also the beneficiaries of the trust.

90-140-E     A Legislator may make a real estate purchase of property subject of foreclosure from a savings and loan as handled by Resolution Trust Co-op.

89-07-E     1. A chancery judge may not own an interest in a business which sells book binding services and supplies to the chancery clerks within his district. Violation of 25-4-105(3)(a).

2. A blind trust will not prevent a violation of the conflict of interest laws if it does not remove the "material financial interest" of the chancery judge or of a "relative".

3. A process whereby proceeds of a blind trust fund flow to dependent children of the chancery judge would not survive an application of the conflict of interest laws.