(A) No city officer or employee, or member of his/her immediate family shall have an interest in a business organization or engage in any business, transaction, or professional activity, which is in substantial conflict with the proper discharge of his/her public duties.
(B) No city officer or employee shall use or attempt to use his/her official position to secure unwarranted privileges or advantages for himself/herself.
(C) No city officer or employee shall act in his/her official capacity in any matter where he/she, a member of his/her immediate family, family member, or a business organization in which he/she has an interest, has a direct or indirect financial or personal involvement that might reasonably be expected to impair his/her objectivity or judgment.
(D) No city officer or employee shall undertake any employment or service, compensated or not, which might reasonably be expected to prejudice his/her independence of judgment in the exercising of his/her official duties.
(E) No city officer or employee, member of his/her immediate family, family member, or business organization in which he/she has an interest, shall solicit or accept any gift, favor, loan, political contribution, service, promise of future employment, or other thing of value based upon an understanding the gift, favor, loan, political contribution, service, promise or other thing or item of value was given or offered for the purpose of influencing him/her, directly or indirectly, in the discharge of his/her official duties. This provision shall not apply to the solicitation or acceptance of contributions to the campaign of an announced candidate for elective public office as governed by state statute.
(F) No city officer or employee shall be prohibited from giving or receiving an award publicly presented in recognition of public service, commercially reasonable loans made in the ordinary course of the lender's business, or reasonable housing, including travel and expenses, entertainment, or meals furnished in connection with public events, appearance, ceremonies or fact-finding trips related to official city business.
(G) No city officer or employee shall use, or allow to be used, any information he/she has knowledge of to achieve financial gain for himself/herself or any member of his/her immediate or family members or for any business or business organization in which he/she may have vested interest.
(H) No city officer or employee shall be deemed in conflict with these provisions if, because of his/her participation in the enactment of any ordinance, resolution or to the matter required to be voted upon or which is subject to executive approval or veto, no material or monetary gain accrues to him/her as member of any business, profession, occupation or group, to any greater extent than gain could reasonably be expected to accrue to any other member of such business, profession, occupation or group.
(I) City officers or employees are not prohibited from making inquiries for information or providing information or assistance on behalf of a constituent provided that no fee, reward or thing of value is promised or received by the officer, member of his/her immediate family or family member.
(J) Nothing shall prohibit any city officer or employee, or member of his or her immediate family, from representing himself, or themselves, in negotiations or proceedings concerning his, or their, own interests.
(K) No officer, employee, appointee or volunteer of the city shall use or permit the use of any city time, funds, personnel, equipment, or other personal or real property of the city for private use of any person, unless the use is so small in nature that it confers no substantial benefit upon the officer, employee, appointee or volunteer; and does not interfere in any way with the city's needed or desired use of such property. The exception to this provision may be, at the discretion of the Mayor and/or City Administrator, the authorization of the loan of city time, personnel or equipment to the county, or joint city/county undertakings, such as jointly created boards or commissions.
(Ord. 94-14, passed 12-19-94)