A. Appointment Limitation: No member of the city council nor any other authority of the city government may appoint, or vote for the appointment of, any person related to himself by affinity or consanguinity within the third degree, to any office or position of profit in the city government. (1991 Code § 1-188)
B. Relatives Listed: Relatives considered as within the third degree of affinity or consanguinity: spouse, parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, uncles, aunts, brothers, sisters, children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nephews and nieces of either the officer or the officer's spouse. The word "children" includes adopted children and stepchildren. Spouses of persons so related to the officer by consanguinity (blood) also are ineligible for employment. However, spouses of persons related to the officer by affinity (marriage) are eligible because no relationship by affinity exists between the officer and his spouse's in-laws. (1991 Code § 1-188; amd. 2013 Code)