(a) Except as provided in subsection (b) hereof, no person who is elected or appointed to an office of or employed by the City shall receive or agree to receive directly or indirectly compensation other than from the agency with which he serves for any service rendered by him personally in any case, proceeding, application or other matter which is before any department, board, commission or other instrumentality of the City.
(b) A public official who is appointed to a nonelective office or a public employee shall be exempted from subsection (a) hereof if both of the following apply:
(1) The department of the City to which the official or employee wants to sell the goods or services, or before which the matter involves the rendering of his services is pending, is a department other than the one which he serves; and
(2) Prior to rendering the personal services or agreeing to sell the goods or services, he files a statement with the Ohio Ethics Commission, with the department he serves, and with the department before which the matter is pending or that is purchasing or has agreed to purchase goods or services. The required statement shall contain the official's or employee's name and home address, the name and mailing address of the department with which he serves and before which the matter is pending or that is purchasing or has agreed to purchase goods or services, and a brief description of the pending matter and of the personal services to be rendered or the goods or services to be purchased. The statement shall also contain the public official's or employee's declaration that he disqualifies himself for a period of two years from any participation as such public official or employee in any matter involving any public official or employee of the department before which the present matter is pending or to which goods or services are to be sold. The two-year period shall run from the date of the most recently filed statement regarding the agency before which the matter was pending or to which the goods or services were to be sold. No person shall be required to file statements under this section with the same department regarding a particular matter more than once in a calendar year.
(c) No public official or employee who files a statement or is required to file a statement under subsection (b) hereof shall knowingly fail to disqualify himself from any participation as a public official or employee of the department with which he serves in any matter involving any official or employee of the department before which a matter for which he rendered personal services was pending or of a department that purchased or agreed to purchase goods or services. (Ord. 9-1991. Passed 5-5-91.)