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(a) No official or employee shall employ or advocate for employment, in any city agency in which said official or employee serves or over which he exercises authority, supervision, or control, any person (i) who is a relative or domestic partner of said official or employee, or (ii) in exchange for or in consideration of the employment of any of said official's or employee's relatives or his domestic partner by any other official or employee; provided that the prohibition in (i) applies to city council committee staff and independent contractors who are paid from funds appropriated to the Alderman for contractual services, provided that those individuals who are relatives and are currently retained as contractors shall be allowed to continue to renew their service contract on an ongoing and annual basis; but not to personal staff of an alderman.
(b) No official or employee shall exercise contract management authority where any relative or the domestic partner of the official or employee is employed by or has contracts with persons doing city work over which the city official or employee has or exercises contract management authority.
(c) No official or employee shall use or permit the use of his position to assist any relative, or his domestic partner, in securing employment or contracts with persons over whom the employee or official exercises contract management authority. The employment of or contracting with a relative or domestic partner of such a city official or employee by such a person within six months prior to, during the term of, or six months subsequent to the period of a city contract shall be evidence that said employment or contract was obtained in violation of this chapter.
(Prior code § 26.2-13; Added Coun. J. 5-16-90, p. 16204; Amend Coun. J. 6-23-04, p. 26935, § 6; Amend Coun. J. 2-10-10, p. 84553, § 1)