(A) Council hereby finds that the purposes of the state’s Governmental Ethics Act, being W.Va. Code Ch. 6B, have reasonable, necessary and appropriate application to matters involving all elected and appointed municipal officials and employees, whether full or part time, who derive a salary, payment of wages or other direct remuneration from the municipality, and does now hereby affirm, ratify and adopt such state defined purposes as being the same purposes of this section, without specifically republishing the state purposes herein.
(B) Council further hereby finds that for the purpose of assisting in the administration of the provisions of this section, that various statutory sections of the aforesaid state act shall be hereby expressly adopted and incorporated as provisions of this section, except as otherwise expressly provided herein, and which such state statutory sections specifically hereby adopted and incorporated herein are as follows:
(1) W.Va. Code §§ 6B-1-1 through 6B-1-6; and
(2) W.Va. Code § 6B-2-5.
(C) Notwithstanding the affirmation and adoption of the purposes of the state act and further the specific adoption of the selected, statutory sections which were immediately hereinbefore set forth in division (B) above, Council specifically finds that certain statutory provisions of the aforesaid state act are either inapplicable to the administration of this section or would otherwise be unduly burdensome for the city to require and administer and, specifically, Council finds that the purposes of the state act and of this section can be effectively executed at the municipal level without the specific adoption and incorporation of the statutory provisions of W.Va. Code §§ 6B-2-4 and 6B-2-7 respecting financial disclosure and W.Va. Code Art. 6B-3 relating to regulation and registration of lobbyists, and which the statutory provisions the Council hereby expressly opts not to include as provisions of this section, and affirmatively elects that such provisions shall not apply to the municipality and its officers and employees.
(D) Any amendment to any of the aforesaid statutory provisions of the state which are expressly herein adopted and incorporated as provisions of this section, shall upon enactment by the state legislature, pursuant to the state prescribed effective date thereof, be deemed to be an amendment to this section unless the city expressly opts not to adopt any such amendment by ordinance duly adopted by Council evidencing the non-adoption of such amendments.
(Prior Code, § 147.02) (Ord. passed 8-8-1989)