(A) No member of the Town Board of Trustees or any other elected or appointed official or authority of the town may appoint or vote for the appointment of any person related by affinity or consanguinity within the third degree to any member of Town Board to any office or position of profit in the municipal government.
(B) The following relatives shall be considered as within the third degree of consanguinity or affinity: children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, nephews, nieces, grandparents, great-grandparents, in-laws of the same degree of relationships, stepchildren, and step-parents. A divorce decree shall be deemed to dissolve all relationships arising from marriage.
(C) Except as may be otherwise provided by ordinance, the same person may hold more than one office or position in the municipal government. A member of the Town Board, however, shall not receive compensation for service in any municipal office or position other than his or her elected office.
(Prior Code, § 1-202)
Statutory reference:
Related provisions, see 11 O.S. § 8-106