No officer or employee of the city/county or any city/county agency shall directly or indirectly through any other person or business, solicit or accept any gift, whether in the form of money, service, loan, travel, entertainment, hospitality, thing or promise, or any other form under circumstances in which it could reasonably be inferred that the gift was intended to influence or could reasonably be expected to influence the officer or employee in the performance of his or her public duties. Excluded from this section are the following:
(A) Gifts received from relatives.
(B) Gifts accepted on behalf of the city/county and transferred to the city/county.
(C) Reasonable travel and travel-related expenses, cost of admission, food and beverages, and entertainment furnished in connection with certain specified public events, appearances, ceremonies, economic development activities, or fact-finding trips related to official government business.
(D) Usual and customary loans made in the ordinary course of business.
(E) Awards presented in recognition of public service.
(Ord. 571, passed 1-19-95; Am. Ord. B2011-04, passed 4-12-11)