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Any provision of this code which provides for denial, suspension or revocation of a license or permit shall be construed, unless otherwise specifically provided in this code, to include a requirement that no such license or permit shall be denied, suspended or revoked under such provision, except in accordance with Tex. Occupations Code Ch. 53.
(1998 Code, § 2-1)
(A) Mayor and Commissioners.
(1) Before taking the oath of office, the Mayor and each Commissioner shall make a bond in the sum of not less than $3,000, each executed by an approved surety company authorized to do business in the state, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties of their office. The bond shall be approved within 20 days after the entry upon the minutes of the city of the election or appointment of such officials, and payable to the city for the use and benefit of the city.
(2) These bonds shall be approved by the outgoing Mayor and Commissioners, or by the remaining members of the Board of Commissioners in case of filling a vacancy thereof.
(B) Other officers and employees. All other officers and employees shall be bonded with an approved surety company in amounts which, in the judgment of the Commission, are deemed sufficient.
(1998 Code, § 2-61)
Charter reference:
Authority to require bonds, see Art. XVIII, § 4
(A) All elected officials shall reside within the city. All department heads shall reside within the city; however, the Mayor, at his or her discretion, may allow for variance for department heads on, a case-by-case basis.
(B) Any employee, other than elected officials and department heads, may reside beyond the city limits; provided, the employee meets the requirements set forth in division (C) below.
(C) (1) Each employee residing outside the city limits shall respond to a civil emergency in not more than 20 minutes from the time he or she is notified.
(2) To
RESPOND, in all cases except for firefighters and police officers, means that the employee when notified shall report to a designated official or department head, or representative thereof, within the city at the place to which he or she is directed.
(3) To
RESPOND for firefighters means that the firefighter when notified shall report to the Fire Chief or his or her representative at the central fire station, 1725 25th Street North, Texas City, Texas.
(4) To
RESPOND for police officers means that the police officer when notified shall report to the Chief of Police or his or her representative at the police station, 1004 9th Avenue North, Texas City, Texas.
(5) Employees electing to reside outside the city limits should select residences near enough so as to enable them to respond to civil emergencies within the time specified in this section.
(D) The City Commission expressly finds that the standards set forth in division (C) above, with respect to the time within which city employees who reside outside the city limits must respond to a civil emergency, are reasonable.
(1998 Code, § 2-63)
(A) This section shall be known as the “City Conflicts of Interest Ordinance”.
(B) No public official or employee shall engage in or accept private employment or render services for private interests when such employment or service is, directly or indirectly, in conflict with the proper discharge of that person’s official duties; or which may affect or impair the official’s independence of judgment or action in the performance of official duties.
(C) No public official or employee shall represent, directly or indirectly, any private person or interest:
(1) Before any city department, agency, commission or board, except in matters of purely public or civic concern and then only without compensation or remuneration;
(2) In any action or proceeding against the interest of the city or in any litigation in which the city or any city department, agency, commission or board is a party, but nothing in this division (C)(2) shall limit the authority of the City Attorney and his or her staff; or
(3) In any action or proceeding in the Municipal Court which was instituted by a public official or an employee in the course of that person’s official duties, but nothing in this division (C)(3) shall limit the authority of the City Attorney and his or her staff.
(D) No public official shall use confidential information obtained during the proper discharge of his or her official duties to advance the financial or other private interest of himself, herself or others.
(E) (1) No public official or employee shall accept any gift, favor, service or other thing of value in excess of $50 and which would reasonably be calculated to improperly influence him or her in the discharge of his or her official duties and which would not be given or offered to him or her were he or she not a public official or an employee of the city.
(2) No public official or employee shall grant in the discharge of his or her official duties any improper favor, service or thing of value.
(F) (1) A breach by an employee of any of the provisions of this section may result in the immediate reprimand, suspension and/or termination of the employee.
(2) Any breach of any of the provisions of this section by a public official shall result in the matter being reviewed by the entire Commission and appropriate action being taken by a majority vote of the Commission.
(1998 Code, § 2-64) (Ord. 95-25, passed 12-20-1995) Penalty, see § 10.99
Statutory reference:
Regulation of conflicts of interests, see Tex. Local Gov’t Code §§ 171.001 et seq.
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