(A) No public servant shall directly or indirectly through any other person or business, solicit or accept any gift under circumstances in which it could reasonably be inferred that the gift was intended to influence or could reasonably be expected to influence the public servant in the performance of his or her public duties.
(B) This section shall not apply to the following:
(1) The solicitation or acceptance of contributions to the campaign of an announced candidate for elective public office, if the public servant and/or candidate for elective public office has no knowledge or reason to believe that the campaign contribution, if accepted, was given with the intent to influence the public servant in the discharge of his or her official duties.
(2) Gifts received from relatives.
(3) Gifts accepted on behalf of a participant and transferred to the participant.
(4) Reasonable travel and travel-related expenses, cost of admission, food and beverages, and entertainment furnished in connection with certain specified, public events, appearance, ceremonies, economic development activities or fact finding trips related to official business of the applicable participant.
(5) Usual and customary loans made to a public servant for personal reasons and/or in the ordinary course of the public servant's business for so long as such loans are not made to the public servant to influence the public servant in the performance of his or her public duties.
(6) Awards presented to the public servant in recognition of public service.
(C) Three shall be a rebuttable presumption that the acceptance by a public servant of a gift having a value of less than one hundred dollars (100.00) was not intended to influence the public servant in the performance of his or her public duties. Nothing in this Code of Ethics shall be construed to prohibit an elected official from accepting reasonable compensation for performing a marriage ceremony (solemnizing a marriage) and no additional financial disclosure shall be required in this regard.
(Ord. 94-6, passed 12-15-94)