(A) No officer or employee of the city or any city agency shall directly or indirectly solicit any gift or accept or receive any gift having a value of $150 or more, whether in the form of money, service, loan, travel, entertainment, hospitality, thing or promise, or any other form under circumstances in which it could reasonably be inferred that the gift was intended to influence or could reasonably be expected to influence the officer or employee in the performance of his or her public duties or was intended as a reward for any official action.
(B) Excluded from this prohibition are:
(1) Gifts received from relatives;
(2) Gifts accepted on behalf of the city and transferred to the city;
(3) Reasonable travel and travel-related expenses, cost of admission, food and beverages and entertainment furnished in connection with certain specified public events, appearances, ceremonies, economic development activities or fact-finding trips related to official government business;
(4) Usual and customary loans made in the ordinary course of business;
(5) Awards, including certificates, plaques and commemorative tokens presented in recognition of public service; and
(6) Informational, promotional and educational items.
(1984 Code, § 36.14) (Ord. O-51-94, passed 12-29-1994; Ord. O-08-18, passed 1-30-2018)