(A) No officer or employee, member of his immediate family, or any business organization in which he or she has an interest shall directly or indirectly solicit or accept or receive any gift, favor, service, loan, travel, entertainment, hospitality, political contribution, promise of future employment or other thing or promise of value.
(B) Exempted from this section are:
(1) Gifts having a total value of fifty dollars ($50.00) or less per year from any one person or organization.
(2) Gifts received from relatives not intended to influence the officer or employee in the discharge of his or her official duties.
(3) Gifts accepted on behalf of the city and transferred to the city.
(4) Reasonable travel and travel related expenses, cost of admission, food and beverages, and entertainment furnished in connection with the certain specified public events, appearances, ceremonies, economic development activities, or other fact finding trips related to official government businesses which have been approved in advance by the Commission or the governing body or board of any city agency.
(5) Usual and customary loans made in the ordinary course of business which were not intended to influence the officer or employee in the discharge of his or her official duties.
(6) Public awards presented in recognition of public service.
(7) Solicitation or acceptance of contributions to the campaign of an announced candidate for elected public office, if the officer or employee has no knowledge or reason to believe that the campaign contribution, if accepted, was given with the intent to influence the officer or employee in the discharge of his or her official duties, are not received on a regular ongoing basis, and are lawful campaign contributions which are reported.
(C) Officers or employees that have been offered any gift, favor, service, loan, travel, entertainment, hospitality, political contribution, promise of future employment or other thing or promise of value with the intent to influence the officer or employee in the discharge of his or her official duty shall immediately report the fact to the Chairman of the Ethics Board.
(Ord. 0-94-023, passed 11-28-94)