As used in this chapter, unless the context clearly requires a different meaning, the following words and terms have the following definitions or meanings:
BOARD OF ETHICS.
The Board which is created and vested by this chapter with the responsibility of enforcing the requirements of the city’s Code of Ethics.
BUSINESS
. Any person, private employer, firm, corporation, partnership, general partner, limited partner, joint venture, proprietorship, enterprise, franchise, association, organization, self-employed individual, holding company, joint stock company, receivership, trustee, fiduciary, trust, professional service corporation, or any legal entity through which business is conducted for profit.
CANDIDATE.
Any individual who seeks nomination or election to a city office. An individual is a candidate when the individual files a notification and declaration for nomination for office with the county clerk or secretary of state, or is nominated for office by a political party, or files a declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate with the county clerk or secretary of state.
CITY.
The City of Dry Ridge, Kentucky.
CITY AGENCY.
Any board, commission, authority, nonstock corporation, or other entity created, either individually or jointly, by this city.
EMPLOYEE.
Any person, whether full-time or part-time, and whether paid or unpaid, who is employed by or provides service to the city. The term EMPLOYEE shall not include any contractor or subcontractor or any of their employees providing goods, materials or services to the city per contract, oral or written, duly authorized, approved and ratified by record action official and proper had by the City Council and the Mayor, or as may be allowed or permitted by law or statute unto the Mayor alone.
FAMILY MEMBER.
A spouse, parent, child, brother, sister, mother-in-law, father-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, grandparent or grandchild of a city official, officer, employee or candidate.
FILER.
Any person required by this chapter to complete, execute and lodge timely with the Board of Ethics such financial interest statement as hereinafter provided.
FINANCIAL INTERESTS STATEMENT.
That document and report of financial/pecuniary assets and interest upon the form adopted which must be periodically made, executed, acknowledged and lodged for record with the Board of Ethics.
IMMEDIATE FAMILY MEMBER.
A spouse, an unemancipated child residing in the officer’s or employee’s household, or a person claimed by the officer or employee, or the officer’s or employee’s spouse, as a dependent for tax purposes.
OFFICER.
Any person, whether full-time or part-time, and whether paid or unpaid, who is one of the following:
(A) The Mayor;
(B) A council member;
(C) The City Clerk/Treasurer;
(D) The city’s Chief Maintenance Officer;
(E) The Chief of Police;
(F) The Chief of the Fire Department;
(G) Any person who occupies a non-elected office created under KRS 83A.080; and
(H) A member of the governing body of any city agency who has been appointed to the governing body of the agency by the city.
RULE OF NECESSITY.
That the city may make or enter into a contract with a city officer or employee, or member of his immediate family, or with a business association/entity in which such city officer or city employee or his/their immediate family member has an economic or pecuniary interest in
(A) The nature of the transaction and the nature of the interest is publicly disclosed on the record prior to the time it is engaged in, and
(B) A specific finding by the city’s legislative body and entered within the official record of the proceedings of the city’s legislative body that, notwithstanding the conflict, it is in the best interests of the city because of limited supply, price, similar factors, or because of and due to a documented emergency.
(Ord. 523-1994, passed 11-23-94)