(A) No officer or employee of the city or any city agency shall directly, or indirectly through any other person or business, solicit any gift 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 solicitation was intended to influence, or could reasonably be expected to influence the officer or employee in the performance of his or her public duties.
(B) No officer or employee of the city or any city agency shall directly, or indirectly through any other person or business, accept any gift having a fair market value of more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250), 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.
(Ord. 1994-12-1, passed 12-8-94) Penalty, see § 35.99