As used in this Chapter:
“Business” shall mean any corporation, partnership, sole proprietorship, firm, enterprise, franchise, association, organization, self-employed individual, holding company, joint stock company receivership, trust, professional service corporation, or any legal entity through which business is conducted for profit.
“Candidate” means any individual who seeks nomination or election to a city office. An individual is a candidate when the individual files a notification and declaration for nomination for office with the county clerk or secretary of state, or files a declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate with the county clerk or secretary of state.
“City Agency” for purposes of this Chapter means those agencies whose board of directors is appointed entirely by the City of Bowling Green, that receive funding directly from the City or whose board members are expected to comply with the same requirements as City officials and employees, i.e., Bowling Green Municipal Utilities, Bowling Green Code Enforcement and Nuisance Board, Bowling Green Audit Committee and Hobson House Commission.
“Domestic Partner” shall mean an adult, unrelated by blood, with which an unmarried or separated public official or employee has an exclusive committed relationship, maintains a mutual residence and shares basic living expenses.
“Employee” shall mean any person, whether full-time or part-time, seasonal or temporary, and whether paid or unpaid, who is employed by, or provides services to, the City. The term “employee” shall not include any contractor or subcontractor.
“Family Member” shall mean a spouse, domestic partner, children and grandchildren and their spouses, parents and parents of a spouse, and brothers and sisters and their spouses.
“Immediate Family Member” means a spouse, domestic partner, an unemancipated child residing in the public official’s or employee’s household, or a person claimed by the public official or employee, or the public official’s or employee’s spouse, as a dependent for tax purposes.
“Interest” shall mean any material direct or indirect benefit accruing to a public official or employee or their family members, whether in the public official’s or employee’s own name or the name of any person, firm, corporation, association or trust from which the public official or employee is entitled to receive any financial benefit, as a result of a contract or transaction which is or which is known will become the subject of an official act or action by or with the City (other than the duly authorized salary or compensation for his or her services to the City).
“Official Act” shall mean any legislative, administra-tive, appointive or discretionary act of any public official or employee of the City or any agency, board, committee or commission thereof.
“Public Official” shall mean any member of the Board of Commissioners or any board appointee of a City agency.
“Relative” shall mean parent, step-parent, grandparent, child, step-child, grandchild, husband, wife, domestic partner, brother, step-brother, half-brother, sister, step-sister, half-sister, sister-in-law, brother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, mother-in-law, and father-in-law. Also included in this definition are any other persons who live in the public official’s or employee’s home. The definition does not include the public official’s or employee’s spouse’s relatives, except for the in-laws specifically listed. “Sister-in-law” and “brother-in-law” are further defined as the sibling of the public official’s or employee’s spouse, or the spouse of the public official’s or employee’s sibling.
“Transaction” shall mean any matter, including but not limited to, contracts, work or business with the City, the sale or purchase of real estate by the City, and any request for zoning amendments, variances, or special permits pending before the City, upon which a public official or employee performs an official act or action.
(Ord. BG91-61, 11/19/91; Ord. BG94-52, 12/13/94; Ord. BG96-5, 2/20/96; Ord. BG96-31, 9/3/96; Ord. BG99-53, 10/19/99; Ord. BG2008-9, 3/4/2008; Ord. BG2008-48, 9/16/2008; Ord. BG2015-11, 5/5/2015; Ord. BG2019-18, 5/7/2019; Ord. BG2020-31, 10/20/2020)