No Councilman or other official or employee, whether paid or unpaid, shall engage in any business or transaction or have a financial or personal interest, direct or indirect, which is incompatible with the proper discharge of his official duties in the public interest or would tend to impair his independence of judgment or action in the performance of his official duties, without first making a public disclosure thereof and then abstaining from voting thereon. Personal interest, as distinguished from financial interest, includes an interest arising from blood or marriage relationships or close business or political association.
Special conflicts of interest are enumerated below for the guidance of officials and employees:
(a) Holding a position in addition to a public position which interferes or may interfere with the proper discharge of the public duty.
(b) Use of confidential information, obtained as a result of public position, for personal gain.
(c) Soliciting of gifts and/or favors by a public official or employee.
(d) Any use of official position for personal gain.
(e) Holding (possession of) investments which interfere or tend to interfere with proper discharge of public duty.
(f) Representation by public officials or employees of private interests before government agencies, courts or legislative bodies, and participation in the profits from such representation.
(g) Participation in transaction as a public representative with a business entity in which the public official or employee has a direct or indirect financial or other personal interest.
(h) Personal interest in legislation to the extend that private interest takes precedence over public interest or duty.
(i) Entry into contracts or other conduct of business for profit by a business in which a public official or employee has a substantial or controlling interest, especially when the public official or employee can influence such contract or business because of his public position.
(j) Soliciting or obtaining future employment with a business doing business with the City over which the public official or employee has some control in his official capacity at the time of the transaction. (Ord. 67-147. Passed 6-26-67.)