As used in this title:
APPOINTED OFFICER: Any person appointed to any statutory office or position of employment with the city. Appointed officers include, but are not limited to, persons serving on special, regular, or full time committees, agencies, or boards, whether or not such persons are compensated for their services.
ASSIST: To act, offer, or agree to act in such a way as to help, represent, aid, advise, furnish information to, or otherwise provide assistance to a person or business entity, believing that such action is of help, aid, advice, or assistance to such person or business entity and with the intent to assist such person or business entity.
BUSINESS ENTITY: A sole proprietorship, partnership, association, joint venture, corporation, firm, trust, foundation, or other organization or entity used in carrying on a business.
CITY: Draper City.
CITY BODY: Any public board, commission, committee, or other public group organized or appointed by the city council to make public policy decisions or to advise persons who make public policy decisions.
CITY EMPLOYEE: A person who is not an elected or appointed officer, who is employed on a full or part time basis by the city.
CITY OFFICER: Any appointed or elected officer. The term shall include the mayor, city council, all appointed city officials, and the members of the city's agencies, boards, committees, and commissions.
COMPENSATION: Anything of economic value, however designated, which is paid, loaned, granted, given, donated, or transferred to any person or business entity by anyone other than the city for or in consideration of personal services, materials, property, or any other thing whatsoever.
ELECTED OFFICER: Any person elected or appointed to the office of mayor or city council.
GOVERNMENTAL ACTION: Any action on the part of the city, including any decision, determination, finding, ruling or order; any grant, payment, award, license, contract, subcontract, transaction, decision, sanction or approval, or the denial thereof, or the failure to act in respect thereto; and any legislative, administrative, or discretionary act of any city official or employee.
IMPROPER DISCLOSURE: Disclosure of private, controlled, or protected information to any person who does not have the right to receive the information.
INTEREST: Direct or indirect pecuniary or material benefit accruing to a city officer or employee as a result of an official act or action by or with the city, except for such contracts or transactions which by their terms and by the substance of their provisions confer the opportunity and right to realize the accrual of similar benefits to all other persons or property similarly situated. For the purposes of this title, a city officer or employee shall be deemed to have an interest in the affairs of:
A. Any person related to such person by blood or marriage in a degree closer than the fourth degree of consanguinity or affinity, determined by the civil law method, and a divorce or separation between spouses shall not be deemed to terminate any such relationship;
B. Any person or business entity with whom a contractual relationship exists with the city officer or employee;
C. Any business entity in which the city officer or employee is an officer, director, or member having a financial interest in, or by which the city officer or employee is employed;
D. Any business entity in which the stock, or legal or beneficial ownership, in excess of five percent (5%) of the total stock or total legal and beneficial ownership, is controlled or owned directly or indirectly by the City officer or employee.
OFFICIAL ACT OR OFFICIAL ACTION: Any legislative, administrative, appointive, or discretionary act of any City officer.
POLITICAL PURPOSE: An act done with intent or in such a way as to influence or tend to influence, directly or indirectly, the election of a candidate or the disposition of any issue on the ballot at a City election.
PRIVATE, CONTROLLED, OR PROTECTED INFORMATION: Information classified as private, controlled, or protected under Utah Code Annotated title 63G, chapter 2, Government Records Access and Management Act or other applicable provision of law.
QUASI-JUDICIAL MATTER: The hearing and ruling upon various permits, licenses and land use applications, excepting zoning amendments, the appeal of any discipline imposed on any City employee, the appeal of any grievance filed by a City employee, or a proceeding to revoke any license, permit, or approval granted by any City body or employee and which is pending, or is reasonably expected to come, before any City body. (Ord. 785, 7-31-2007, eff. 8-15-2007)