(1) For purposes of this section, “personal interest” means:
(a) Any financial, ownership, or employment interest in the subject of a vote by any board not otherwise regulated by state statutes on conflicts of interests; or
(b) Any financial, ownership, or employment interest in a matter to be regulated or supervised; or
(c) Any such financial, ownership, or employment interest of the official's or employee's spouse, parents, stepparents, grandparents, siblings, children, or stepchildren.
(2) The words "employment interest" include a situation in which an official or employee or a designated family member is negotiating possible employment with a person or organization that is the subject of the vote or that is to be regulated or supervised.
(3) In any situation in which a personal interest is also a conflict of interest under state law, the provisions of the state law take precedence over the provisions of this chapter
(as added by Ord. #007-04-10, May 2007)