(A) No county government officer, county government employee, county government agent, or member of his/her immediate family or business associate, shall have an interest in a business organization or engage in any business, transaction, or professional activity, which results in substantial conflict with the proper discharge of the county government duties of said officer, employee or agent.
(B) No county government officer, county government employee or county government agent shall use or attempt to use his/her official position to secure unwarranted privileges or advantages for himself/herself or others.
(C) No county government officer, county government employee, or county government agent shall solicit or accept any gift having a fair market value of more than $150 from any individual or business organization, per calendar year, 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 expected to influence the officer, employee or agent in the performance of his/her county government duties. This provision shall not apply to the solicitation or acceptance of contributions to the campaign of an announced candidate for elective public officer as governed by the Kentucky Revised Statutes.
(D) No county government officer, county government employee or county government agent shall be prohibited from giving or receiving an award publicly presented in recognition of public service from receiving commercially reasonable loans made in the ordinary course of the lender's business or from receiving reasonable travel expenses, entertainment, meals or refreshments furnished in connection with public events, appearances, ceremonies or fact finding trips related to official county government business.
(E) No county government officer shall be prohibited from accepting a gratuity for solemnizing a marriage in accordance with all applicable statutory requirements.
(F) No county government officer, county government employee or county government agent shall use, or allow to be used, his/her county government office, county government employment, county government agency, or any information, not generally available to the members of the public, which he/she receives or acquires in the course of and by reason of his/her county government office or county government employment, for the purpose of securing financial gain for himself, any member of his/her immediate family, any business associate or any business organization with which he/she is associated, except under the "rule of necessity".
(G) No county government officer, county government employee or county government agent shall be deemed in conflict with these provisions if, by reason of his/her participation in the enactment of any ordinance, resolution or other matter required to be voted upon or which is subject to executive approval, no material or monetary gain accrues to him/her as a member of any business, profession, occupation or group, to any greater extent than any gain could reasonably be expected to accrue to any other member of such business, profession, occupation or group.
(H) No county government officer shall be prohibited from making an inquiry for information of providing assistance on behalf of a constituent, if no fee, reward or other thing of value is promised to, given to or accepted by the officer or a member of his/her immediate family, whether directly or indirectly, in return therefore.
(I) Nothing shall prohibit any county government officer, county government employee or county government agent or members of his/her immediate family, from representing himself/herself, or themselves, in negotiations or proceedings concerning his/her, or their, own interests.
(Ord. 2015-15, passed 10-6-15)