(a) No official of the city shall knowingly:
1. Disclose or use confidential information concerning the property, government or affairs of the governmental body by which that official is employed or of which the official is a member without proper authorization in order to advance the direct or indirect private financial or other private interests of said official or others;
2. Vote or otherwise participate in the negotiation or the making of any contract with any business or entity in which the official has a direct or indirect private financial interest;
3. Represent private interests in any action or proceeding before the governmental body by which the official is employed or of which the official is a member or any appeal of a decision of such body;
4. Accept any valuable gift, whether in the form of service, loan, thing or promise, from any employee of or applicant for employment with the City of Albuquerque or from any person, firm or corporation which to the official's knowledge is interested directly or indirectly in any manner whatsoever, in business dealings with the governmental body by which the official is employed or of which the official is a member, including donors who are unidentified; provided, however, that this subsection shall not be read as prohibiting an incumbent candidate for any elective office from receiving duly disclosed campaign contributions in accordance with the provisions of Article XIII of this Charter or an official who is a candidate for a non-city office from receiving campaign contributions for that non-city office.
(b) No member of the City Council shall:
1. During the term for which he or she was elected, be appointed to or selected for any paid office or employment with the city, nor shall he or she within one year thereafter be appointed to any paid city office or employment which the city created, or the emoluments of which first were established or were increased during such term; nor shall any member of the City Council during the term for which he or she was elected nor within one year thereafter, be interested directly in any contract with the city, which was authorized by any law passed during such term;
2. During their term of office participate in any debate or vote on any matter which will likely result in any benefit to the member which benefit is greater than the benefit to the public in general. A benefit for purposes of this paragraph shall mean a financial benefit or a benefit conferred by the City Council member's employer as a direct result of the member's participation in the matter.
(c) Disqualification. An official is disqualified from participating in a matter when: (1) the official has or is in the process of acquiring a direct interest in an enterprise which would be affected by the official's vote on proposed legislation, unless the interest is common to all members of a profession or occupation of which the official is a member or the general public or a large class of the general public, (2) the official benefits financially from a direct or indirect interest with a person whom the official knows has an interest in an enterprise or interest that would be affected by the official taking any action, (3) the official benefits financially from a direct interest with a person who is lobbying for the purpose of influencing any action, or (4) the official solicits, accepts, or agrees to accept a loan, other than a loan from a commercial lender in the normal course of business, from a person who would be affected by or has an interest in an enterprise which would be affected by the official's participation in any action.
(Am. Ord 35-1975; Am. Ord. 29-1976; Am. Ord. 91-1980; Am. Ord. 23-1988; Am. Ord. 33-1989; Am. Ord. 34-2006)