(A) Scope. All city officials as defined in this subchapter shall be subject to and abide by the following standards of conduct.
(B) Interest in contract or agreement. No city official, as herein defined, shall have or thereafter acquire an interest in any contract or agreement with the city of Goldsboro.
(C) Use of official position. No city official shall use official position or the city's facilities for his or her private gain, nor shall the city official appear before or represent any private person, group or interest before any department, agency, commission or board of the city except in matters of purely civic or public concern. The provisions of this paragraph are not intended to prohibit a city official's speaking before neighborhood groups and other nonprofit organizations.
(D) Disclosure of information. No city official shall use or disclose confidential information gained in the course of or by reason of his or her official position for purposes of advancing:
(1) His or her financial or personal interest;
(2) A business entity of which the city official is an owner (in part or in whole), an officer or a director; or
(3) The financial or personal interest of a member of his or her immediate household or that of any other person.
(E) Incompatible service. No city official shall engage in, or accept private employment or render service for private interest, when such employment or service is incompatible with the proper discharge of his or her official duties or would tend to impair his or her independence of judgment or action in the performance of his or her official duties, unless otherwise permitted by law and unless disclosure is made as provided in this subchapter.
(F) Gifts. No city official shall directly or indirectly solicit any gift, or accept or receive any gift having a value of $50 or more, whether in the form of money, services, loan, travel, entertainment, hospitality, thing or promise, or any other form, under circumstances in which it could reasonably be inferred that the gift was intended to influence him or her, or could reasonably be expected to influence him or her, in the performance of his or her official duties, or was intended as a reward for any official action on his or her part. Legitimate political contributions shall not be considered as gifts under the provision of this paragraph.
(G) Special treatment. No city official shall grant any special consideration, treatment or advantage to any citizen beyond that which is available to every other citizen.
('70 Code, § 2-170)