(a) As used in this section:
(1) "Officer" means the Mayor, the City Clerk, the City Treasurer, a member of Council, a Judge, the City Attorney, the City Assessor, the City Auditor, the City Administrator, the Administrative Assistant, the City Engineer, the Director of Inspections, the Planning Consultant or any other appointee of the Mayor and/or Council, except a member of a board or commission of the City who serves without compensation.
(2) "Members of the immediate family" means the father, mother, wife, son, daughter, father-in-law, mother-in-law, brother or sister of an officer.
(b) No officer of the City shall represent any customer, client or patron before any board, commission or department of the City, or before Council, wherein the officer as a spokesperson or advocate shall request that such board, commission or department, or that Council, exercise its authority, duties or powers in any particular matter, duly before such board, commission, department or Council. No officer of the City shall, as a part of his or her duties in his or her official capacity, approve, disapprove or in any way pass judgment upon any matter that comes before him or her in which he or she is the promulgator, scrivener, designer, developer, petitioner or advocate.
(c) The prohibitions enumerated in subsection (b) hereof shall extend to associates, business associates, employees, employees of and members of the business firm or association of which such officer is a member or affiliate, and to members of the immediate family of the officer.
(d) Any violation of subsection (b) or (c) hereof shall constitute misconduct in office, in addition to the penal provisions of Section 202.99.
(1974 Code § 1.95(1) to (4))