(a) No public official or employee shall participate within the scope of his duties as a public official or employee, except through ministerial functions as defined in the preceding section, in any license or rate-making proceeding that directly affects the license or rates of any person, partnership, trust, business trust, corporation or association in which the public official or employee or his immediate family owns or control more than five percent (5%).
(b) No public official or employee shall participate within the scope of his duties as a public official or employee, except through ministerial functions as defined in the preceding section, in any license or rate-making proceeding that directly affects the license or rates of any person to whom the public official or employee or his immediate family, or a partnership, trust, business trust, corporation or association of which he or his immediate family owns or controls more than five percent (5%) has sold goods or services totaling more than one thousand dollars ($1,000) during the preceding year, unless the public official or employee has filed a written statement acknowledging such sale with the Clerk of Council and the statement is entered in Council records.
(c) This section shall not be construed to require the disclosure of clients of attorneys or persons licensed as psychologists or school psychologists, or patients of persons certified to practice medicine or surgery.
(Ord. 57-97. Passed 9-8-97.)
(Ord. 57-97. Passed 9-8-97.)