"No member of the legislature nor any state officer shall be interested directly or indirectly in any contract with the state or any political subdivision thereof which shall cause a substantial conflict of interest. The legislature shall further implement this provision by appropriate legislation."

"No member of the legislature, herein referred to as a 'legislator', nor any state officer shall be interested directly or indirectly in any contract with the state or any political subdivision thereof which shall cause a substantial conflict of interest.

"The word 'interested' as used in section 2 refers to a pecuniary interest if there is a conflict of interest on the part of a legislator or state officer in respect to a contract with the state or a political subdivision thereof, in order to come within the prohibitions of this act, his personal interest must be of such substance as to induce action on his part in promoting the contract for his own personal benefit. In the following cases, there shall be deemed to be no conflict of interest which is substantial:

"(b) In respect to a contract between the state or any political subdivision thereof and:

"(i) a corporation in which a legislator ... is a ... director, ...;

"(iv) ... if the legislator or state officer does not solicit the contract, takes no part in the negotiations for or in the approval of the contract or any amendment thereto, and does not in any way represent either party in the transaction and if the contract is not with or authorized by the department or agency of the state or a political subdivision thereof with which the state officer is connected."

"It follows that 1968 PA 318, Sec. 4(b)(iv), supra, must be read that no substantial conflict of interest in a contract with the state exists if a state officer is not with the state agency entering into the contract, even though the state officer may take part in the negotiations with the contracting state agency. No prohibited conflict of interest exists because the state officer's public duties do not extend to acting on behalf of the contracting state agency. This construction of 1968 PA 318, Sec. 4(b)(iv), supra, is consonant with Const 1963, art 4, Sec. 10 and in harmony with the manifest intent of the Legislature in its enactment of 1968 PA 318, supra...."

"In the case of a day care services corporation owned or controlled by a legislator or by doing business under an assumed name, the legislator, in negotiating and entering into a contract with the Department of Social Services, would not be in a substantial conflict of interest because the legislator, as part of the legislative branch of state government, has no duty to act and has not acted in the negotiations on behalf of the Department of Social Services."

"Contracts can, of course, only be entered into by state agencies with funds appropriated by the Legislature for that purpose. Sound public policy in my opinion, therefore, requires that any legislator financially interested in a contract with a state agency disclose that interest when voting upon appropriations for that agency."

"A state representative serving upon the board of trustees of a charitable organization has no pecuniary interest in contracts or lobbying efforts entered into between the charitable organization and state agencies. However, the legislator may be called upon to vote on bills appropriating funds or grants to those state agencies contracting with the respective charitable organizations. In that event, the position of the legislator on the board of the charitable organization should be disclosed at the time of the vote."