No officer, member of Council, Mayor or member of any board or commission, employee, or appointee of the City shall:
(a) Gain financially from any contract, job, work or service with or for the City, nor in any contract, job, work or service for which approval thereof will be required by elected officials or any officer, employee or appointee to any board or commission, nor in the profit or emoluments thereof, nor in the expenditure of any money on the part of the City other than in his fixed compensation and expenses. Any contract with the City in which any officer or employee is or becomes financially interested may be declared void by the Mayor or Council.Such interest shall disqualify any such officer or employee from holding office, in addition to the other penalties provided by law;
(b) Act, directly or indirectly, as attorney, agent, broker, finder, engineer, architect or employee or in any other capacity, in behalf of any private person, firm or corporation interested, directly or indirectly, in any manner whatsoever, in any contract, work or business, or the sale or acquisition of any property, the cost of which is payable from City funds;
(c) Engage in the practice of law or represent or appear in behalf of an individual or individuals in any court in any matter or controversy in which the City is or may become a party, except on behalf of the City as an officer or employee, or voluntarily give opinion evidence against the interests of the City in any litigation in which the City is a party; or
(d) Appear before any board of commission of the City as counsel, attorney or agent, except that the Mayor or a member of Council may appear in behalf of a constituent or constituents without compensation therefore, or in the performance of a public obligations or official duties.
(e) Subsections (a) and (b) do not apply to a public contract in which a City officer, member of Council or member of any board or commission, employee, or appointee has an interest, when all of the following apply:
(1) The subject of the public contract is necessary supplies or services for the City;
(2) The supplies or services are unobtainable elsewhere for the same or lower cost, or are being furnished to the City as part of a continuing course of dealing established prior to the public official’s becoming associated with the City;
(3) The treatment accorded the City is either preferential to or the same as that accorded other customers or clients in similar transactions; and
(4) The entire transaction is conducted at arm’s length, with full knowledge by the City, through its Mayor and the Council, of the interest of the public official, and the public official takes no part in the deliberations or decisions of the City with respect to the public contract.
(f) For purposes of this section, “public official” means any officer, the Mayor, member of Council or member of any board or commission, employee or appointee of the City of Twinsburg.
(g) For purposes of this section, “contract” means any agreement, job, work, services or furnishing of materials or supplies from which there is derived any profit, emoluments or compensation of any kind, whether monetary or in kind.
(Ord. 47-2007. Passed 4-24-07.)