As used in this chapter:
(a) “Compensation” means money, thing of value, or financial benefit. “Compensation” does not include reimbursement for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the performance of official duties.
(b) “Public official or employee” means any person who is elected or appointed to an office of the City or is an employee of any public agency. “Public official or employee” does not include a person elected or appointed to the office of precinct, ward or district committee member under Ohio R.C. 3517.03, any presidential elector or delegate to a national convention. “Public Official or employee” does not include a person who is a teacher, instructor, professor any other kind of educator whose position does not involve the performance of, or authority to perform, administrative supervisory functions.
(c) “Public agency” means Mayor’s Court, any department, division, institution, board, commission, authority, bureau or other instrumentality of the City. “Public agency” does not include a department, division, institution, board, commission, authority or other instrumentality of the State or a county, municipal corporation, township or other governmental entity that functions exclusively for cultural, educational, historical, humanitarian, advisory or research purposes; does not expend more than ten thousand dollars ($10,000) per calendar year, excluding salaries and wages of employees; and whose members are uncompensated.
(d) “Immediate family” means a spouse residing in the person’s household and any dependent child.
(e) “Income” includes gross income as defined and used in the “Internal Revenue Code of 1954", 68A Stat[3,] 26 U.S.C. 1, as now or hereafter amended, interest and dividends on obligations or securities of any state or of any political subdivision or authority thereof, and interests and dividends on obligations of any authority, commission or instrumentality of the United States.
(f) “Appropriate ethics commission” means the Ohio Ethics Commission.
(g) “Anything of value” has the same meaning as provided in Ohio R.C. 1.03 and includes, but is not limited to, a contribution as defined in Ohio R.C. 3517.01.
(Ord. 57-97. Passed 9-8-97.)