(a) Council hereby finds that the purposes of the West Virginia Governmental Ethics Act 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 Municipal governmental ethics article, without specifically republishing such State purposes herein.
(b) Council further hereby finds that for the purpose of assisting in the administration of the provisions of this article, that various statutory sections of the aforesaid State Act shall be hereby expressly adopted and incorporated as provisions of this article except as otherwise expressly provided herein, and which such State statutory sections specifically hereby adopted and incorporated herein are as follows: West Virginia Code 6B-1-1 to to 6B-1-5; 6B-2-5; and the applicable provisions of West Virginia Code 6B-3-1.
(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 subsection (b) hereof, Council specifically finds that certain statutory provisions of the aforesaid State Act are either inapplicable to the administration of this Municipal Article 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 article can be effectively executed at the Municipal level without the specific adoption and incorporation of the statutory provisions of West Virginia Code 6B-2-6 and 6B-2-7 respecting financial disclosure, and which statutory provisions Council hereby expressly opts not to include as provisions of this article.
(d) Council further hereby finds in carrying out the purposes of this article and in administering the provisions hereof, that it is reasonable and necessary to establish a Municipal Ethics Commission and to provide for the manner of appointment of the members thereof, terms of office, general powers and duties, the issuance of advisory opinions and a method of investigating and deciding complaints filed against the City's public officials and employees who are subject to the provisions hereof.
(Ord. 89-13. Passed 9-5-89.)