No official or employee shall accept any gift, service, loan, thing, money or promise, from any person which to his or her knowledge is interested directly or indirectly in any manner whatsoever in business dealings within the town jurisdiction; nor shall an official or employee accept a gift, favor or thing of value that may tend to influence him or her in the discharge of his or her duties, or grant in the discharge of his or her duties any improper favor, service or thing of value.
(1988 Code, § 16-155)