(A) No village official or employee shall make, participate in making or in any way attempt to use his or her position to influence any village governmental decision or action in which he or she knows or has reason to know that he or she has any financial interest distinguishable from its effect on the public generally, or from which he or she has derived any income or compensation during the preceding 12 months, or from which he or she reasonably expects to derive any income or compensation in the following 12 months.
(B) No village official, or any person acting at the direction of that village official, shall contact, either orally or in writing, any other village official or employee with respect to any matter involving any person with whom the elected official has any business relationship that creates a financial interest on the part of the official, or the domestic partner or spouse of the official, or from whom or which he or she has derived any income or compensation during the preceding 12 months, or from whom or which he or she reasonably expects to derive any income or compensation in the following 12 months. In addition, no elected official may participate in any discussion in any village committee hearing or meeting, or in any village board meeting, or vote on any matter involving the person with whom the elected official has any business relationship that creates a financial interest on the part of the official, or the domestic partner or spouse of the official, or from whom or which he or she has derived any income or compensation during the preceding 12 months, or from whom or which he reasonably expects to derive any income or compensation in the following 12 months.
(Ord. 2167, passed 6-19-2014)