All city officials as defined in § 31.03 shall be subject to and abide by the following standards of conduct:
(A) Interest in contract or agreement. No city official or employee as herein defined shall have or thereafter acquire an interest in any contract or agreement with the city.
(B) Use of official position. No city official or employee shall use his official position or the city’s facilities for his private gain, nor shall he 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 civil or public concern.
(C) Disclosure of information. No city official or employee shall use or disclose confidential information gained in the court of or by reason of his official position for purpose of advancing his financial or personal interest, a business entity of which he is an owner (in part or in whole), an officer or a director, or the financial or personnel interest of a member of his immediate household or that of any other person.
(D) Incompatible service. No city official or employee 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 official duties or would tend to impair his independence of judgment or action in the performance of his official duties, unless otherwise permitted by law and unless disclosure is as provided in this code.
(E) Gifts. No city official or employee shall directly or indirectly solicit any gifts or accept or receive any gift having a value of $25 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 could reasonably be expected to influence him, in the performance of his official duties, or was intended as a reward for any official action on his part. Legitimate political contributions shall not be considered as gifts under the provisions of this division.
(F) Special treatment. No city official or employee shall grant any special consideration, treatment or advantage to any citizen beyond that which is available to every other citizen.
(G) Use of public property. No city official or employee shall request, use or permit the use of any publicly-owned or publicly-supported property, vehicle, equipment, material, labor or service for the personal convenience or the private advantage of himself or any other person. This rule shall not be deemed to prevent an official or employee from requesting, using or permitting the use of such publicly- owned or publicly-supplied property, vehicle, equipment, labor, material or services which is the general practiced to make available to the public at large or for the use of conducting the official business of the city.
(H) No city official or employee shall request, use or permit the use of any consideration, treatment, advantage or favor beyond that which is general practice to grant to make available to the public at large. All city officials or employees shall threat all citizens of the city with courtesy, impartiality, fairness and equality under the law.
(‘68 Code, § 2-1504) (Ord. 540, passed 8-6-79)