Section 10730 Of Article 4. Purchasing Pool For Small Employers From California Insurance Code >> Division 2. >> Part 2. >> Chapter 8. >> Article 4.
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. (a) The Voluntary Alliance Uniting Employers Purchasing
Program is hereby created and shall be administered by the Major Risk
Medical Insurance Board.
(b) No member of the Major Risk Medical Insurance Board and no
decisionmaker for any nonprofit entity that assumes administrative
and fiscal responsibility for operation of the program pursuant to
Sections 10748.5 and 10748.6 shall make, participate in making, or in
any way attempt to use his or her official position to influence the
making of any decision that he or she knows or has reason to know
will have a reasonably foreseeable material financial effect,
distinguishable from its effect on the public generally, on him or
her or a member of his or her immediate family, or on any of the
following:
(1) Any source of income, other than gifts and other than loans by
a commercial lending institution in the regular course of business
on terms available to the public without regard to official status
aggregating two hundred fifty dollars ($250) or more in value
provided to, received by, or promised to the member of the Major Risk
Medical Insurance Board or decisionmaker for a nonprofit entity that
assumes administrative and fiscal responsibility for operation of
the program pursuant to Sections 10748.5 and 10748.6 within 12 months
prior to the time when the decision is made.
(2) Any business entity in which the member of the Major Risk
Medical Insurance Board or decisionmaker for a nonprofit entity that
assumes administrative and fiscal responsibility for operation of the
program pursuant to Sections 10748.5 and 10748.6 is a director,
officer, partner, trustee, employee, or holds any position of
management.
(c) Commencing January 1, 1994, no member of the Major Risk
Medical Insurance Board and no decisionmaker for any nonprofit entity
that assumes administrative and fiscal responsibility for the
program pursuant to Sections 10748.5 and 10748.6, may be an employee,
a consultant or a member of the board of directors of any insurer,
hospital service plan or health care service plan, or an insurance
broker or agent doing business in California.