An employee may not accept gifts, gratuities, or loans from organizations, business concerns, or individuals with whom he/she has official relationships of business with the Village. These limitations are not intended to prohibit employees from accepting articles of negligible value, which are widely distributed to the general public nor from accepting social courtesies, which promote good public relations.
It is particularly important that Village employees guard against relationships, which might be construed as evidence of favoritism, coercion, unfair advantage, or collusion. The securing of a loan by an employee from a financial institution doing business with the Village does not constitute a conflict of interest.
(Ord. O-03-018. Passed 5-21-03.)