2-156-146 Lobbyist ethics education seminar.

   Each lobbyist shall be required to complete in each consecutive twelve month period an ethics education training course developed by the Board of Ethics. Such a course may be offered in-person, through an internet- based program, or other manner prescribed by the Board of Ethics.

(Added Coun. J. 10-7-09, p. 73199, § 2; Amend Coun. J. 7-25-12, p. 31123, § 1)

2-156-148 Education program.

   The board of ethics is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations which shall establish and implement a program to educate persons subject to this chapter about their duties and responsibilities hereunder. The board shall offer an ethics education seminar for city officials and employees on as many occasions as necessary to accommodate the requirements of this chapter.

(Added Coun. J. 7-25-12, p. 31123, § 1)

Part 5. Sexual Harassment (2-156-149 et seq.)

2-156-149 Sexual harassment by officials.

   No official shall engage in, encourage, or permit – by action or inaction – behavior constituting sexual harassment. This requirement does not limit or replace any other applicable law, rule, regulation, process, or policy regarding such conduct.

(Added Coun. J. 11-8-17, p. 58447, § 3; Amend Coun. J. 2-28-18, p. 68393, § 2; Amend Coun. J. 3-13-19, p. 96315, § 1)

ARTICLE III. FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE (2-156-150 et seq.)

2-156-150 Statements of financial interest.

   (a)   For purposes of this article, the following persons shall be referred to as “reporting individuals”:

      (i)   Each elected official;

      (ii)   Each alderman;

      (iii)   Each appointed official, except a member of an agency that is solely advisory in nature and has no authority to make binding decisions, to enter into contracts or to make expenditures, other than expenditures necessarily incurred for research in connection with its advisory functions;

      (iv)   Each mayor's office employee who is not solely clerical;

      (v)   Each city council employee who is not solely clerical;

      (vi)   Each department head;

      (vii)   Each person who qualifies as candidate for city office; and

      (viii)   Each employee listed by the board as a reporting employee as provided in subsection (b).

   (b)   The board shall create, maintain, and update a list of reporting employees and officials. In creating or updating such list, the board, in consultation with the Department of Human Resources, shall first develop a list of relevant factors, such as the employee's contract management authority and the employee's likelihood of being involved in conflicts of interest issues.

   (c)   Except as otherwise provided in subsection (d), each reporting individual shall file, within 30 days of becoming a reporting individual and by May 31st of each year thereafter, a verified written statement of financial interests in accordance with the provisions of this article, unless he has already filed a statement in that calendar year.

   (d)   Statements of financial interests shall also be filed by the following:

      (i)   An elected official at the time of filing his oath of office;

      (ii)   A person whose appointment to office is subject to confirmation by the city council at the time when his name is submitted to the council for consideration;

      (iii)   A person who qualifies as a candidate for city office within five days after qualifying as a candidate for city office;

      (iv)   Any other person at the time he becomes a reporting individual, including city employees who become reporting individuals because they are newly hired or are receiving a pay increase, or a job or title change.

   (e)   The department of human resources, the comptroller's office and the office of the mayor shall cooperate with the board of ethics in notifying persons listed in subdivisions (ii) and (iii) of subsection (d) of this section of their obligation to file statements of financial interests and in effecting the filing of such statements.

(Prior code § 26.2-15; Added Coun. J. 5-16-90 p. 16204; Amend Coun. J. 1-12-93, p. 27633; Amend Coun. J. 12-7-05, p. 64870, § 1.6; Amend Coun. J. 7-25-12, p. 31123, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 7-29-15, p. 3567, § 1)

2-156-160 Content of statements.

   (a)   Statements of financial interests shall contain the following information:

      (1)   The name, address and type of any professional, business or other organization (other than the city) in which the reporting individual was an officer, director, associate, partner, proprietor or employee, or served in any advisory capacity, and from which any income in excess of $1,000.00 was derived during the preceding calendar year, and the category of such income as specified in subsection (b);

      (2)   The nature of any professional, business or other services rendered by the reporting individual or by his or her spouse or domestic partner, or by any entity in which the reporting individual or his or her spouse or domestic partner has a financial interest, including the category of such financial interest as specified in subsection (b), the name and nature of the person or entity (other than the city) to whom or to which such services were rendered, and the category of the compensation as specified in subsection (b) if, during the preceding calendar year, (i) compensation in excess of $5,000.00 was received for professional or other services by the reporting individual, or by such individual's spouse or domestic partner, or by an entity in which the reporting individual or his or her spouse or domestic partner has a financial interest and (ii) the person or entity was doing business with the city, or with the Chicago Transit Authority, Board of Education, Chicago Park District, Chicago City Colleges or the Metropolitan Pier and Exposition Authority.

      (3)   The identity of any capital asset, including the address or legal description of real estate, and the category of the capital gain realized as specified in subsection (b), from which the reporting individual realized a capital gain of $5,000.00 or more in the preceding calendar year other than from the sale of the reporting individual's principal place of residence;

      (4)   The name of any unit of government, other than the city, which employed the reporting individual during the preceding calendar year;

      (5)   The name of any board on which the reporting individual serves and the position of the reporting individual in such board;

      (6)   The name of any covered relative of the reporting individual who is registered as a lobbyist with the board or who is an employee or full or part-owner of a city contractor;

      (7)   Any improper gift that the reporting individual received and disposed of in accordance with Section 2-156-144 because such gift was given in violation of this chapter;

      (8)   The name of any person from whom the reporting individual received during the preceding calendar year one or more gifts having an aggregate value in excess of $250.00, but not including gifts from relatives or domestic partners;

      (9)   The name and instrument of ownership in any person conducting business in the city, in which the reporting individual had a financial interest during the preceding calendar year. Ownership interests in publicly held corporations need not be disclosed;

      (10)   The identity of any financial interest in real estate located in the city, other than the principal place of residence of the reporting individual, and the address or, if none, the legal description of the real estate, including all forms of direct or indirect ownership such as partnerships or trusts of which the corpus consists primarily of real estate;

      (11)   The name of, and the nature of the city action requested by, any person which has applied to the city for any license or franchise, or any permit for annexation, zoning or rezoning of real estate during the preceding calendar year if the reporting individual has a financial interest in such person;

      (12)   The name of any person doing business with the city in relation to which person the reporting individual had a financial interest during the preceding calendar year, and the title or description of any position held by the reporting individual in such person;

      (13)   The name and instrument of debt of all debts in excess of $5,000.00 owed by the reporting individual, as well as the name and instrument of debt of all debts in excess of $5,000.00 owed to the reporting individual, but only if the creditor or debtor, respectively, or any guarantor of the debt, has done work for or business with the City of Chicago in the preceding calendar year. Debt instruments issued by financial institutions whose normal business includes the making of loans of the kind received by the reporting individual, and which are made at the prevailing rate of interest and in accordance with other terms and conditions standard for such loans at the time the debt was contracted need not be disclosed. Debt instruments issued by publicly held corporations and purchased by the reporting individual on the open market at the price available to the public need not be disclosed.

   (b)   For purposes of subsection (a), income, financial interest, compensation, and capital gain shall be categorized as follows;

      (1)   Income, financial interest, compensation or capital gain of $25,000.00 or more shall be Category A;

      (2)   Income, financial interest, compensation or capital gain of $5,000.00 or more but less than $25,000.00 shall be Category B; and

      (3)   Income, financial interest, compensation or capital gain of less than $5,000.00 shall be Category C.

(Prior code § 26.2-16; Added Coun. J. 5-16-90, p. 16204; Amend Coun. J. 12-10-97, p. 58942; Amend Coun. J. 4-29-98, p. 66709; Amend Coun. J. 6-23-04, p. 26935, § 7; Amend Coun. J. 7-25-12, p. 31123, § 1; Amend Coun. J. 7-29-15, p. 3567, § 1)