(1) It is the purpose of this chapter to provide a method of assuring that standards of ethical conduct and financial disclosure requirements for officers and employees shall be clearly established, uniform in their application, and enforceable, and to provide the officers and employees with advice and information concerning potential conflicts of interest which might arise in the conduct of their public duties.
(2) It is the further purpose of this chapter to meet the requirements of KRS 65.003.
(3) This chapter is enacted under the power vested in the urban county government by KRS 67A.060 and 67A.070 and pursuant to the requirements of KRS 65.003.
(4) This chapter is intended as a minimum standard of conduct for officers and employees. It does not abrogate any stricter or higher standard established either by federal, state or local law, including the common law of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the Code of Ethics of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government Charter; or by any rule or regulation established by the urban county government, an agency or a constitutional officer.
(Ord. No. 255-94, § 1, 12-13-94)