(a) No Councilor shall hold any other City office or employment during his/her term of office and no former Mayor or Councilor shall hold any compensated appointive City office or employment until one year after the expiration of the term for which he/she was elected to the City Council or Office.
(b) Neither the City Council nor any of its members shall in any manner dictate the appointment or removal of any City administrative officer or employees whom the City Manager or any of his subordinates are empowered to appoint, but the City Council may express its views and fully and freely discuss with the City Manager anything pertaining to appointment and removal of such officers and employees. Except for investigations (sec. 4.9), the City Council or its members shall deal with City officers and employees who are subject to the direction and supervision of the City Manager solely through the City Manager, and neither the City Council nor its members shall give orders to any such officer or employee either publicly or privately.
(c) No incumbent elective City officer shall become a candidate for any elective City office except to succeed him/herself, without first resigning from the incumbent office, unless that term of office will expire with the election at which he/she is a candidate for another City office. No appointive City officer or employee shall seek an elective office of the City without first either resigning from the appointed office, or taking a leave of absence for the period from the petition filing deadline through election day. If the officer is elected, he/she shall resign from the appointive office as of the date of assumption of the elective position.
(d) No member of the City Council or of any Board or Commission of the City shall vote on any issue or matter in which he/she shall have a proprietary or financial interest or as the result of which he/she may gain a financial benefit. If a question is raised under this section at any City Council, Board, or Commission meeting, such specific question shall be resolved before the main question shall be voted on, but the member in question shall not vote on such determination.
(e) Unless the City Council shall unanimously determine that the best interests of the City shall be served, the following relatives of any elective or appointive officer are disqualified from City employment during the term of said officer: spouse, child, parent, grandchild, grandparent, brother, sister, half-sister, half-brother or the spouse of any of them. All relationships shall include those arising from adoption. This section shall in no way disqualify such relatives or their spouses who are appointed officers or employees of the City at the time of the election or appointment of said Official, or employed by the City at the time of adoption of this Charter.