An appearance of impropriety is created when a covered person will or may take a direct official action that, although not constituting a conflict of interest, will or may create a reasonable perception that the covered person's ability to carry out his or her official duties with integrity, impartiality, and competency is impaired.
A covered person who determines that his or her action(s) may cause an appearance of impropriety should consider (but is not required to) disclosing and recusing or disclosing and declaring impartiality as prescribed by the voluntary provisions of section 1.3.115 of this article. (Ord. 16-122)