(A) No city government officer, employee or agent or member of his/her immediate family shall have an interest in a business organization or engage in any business, transaction, or professional activity, which is in substantial conflict with the proper discharge of his/her duties in the public interest.
(B) No city government officer, employee or agent shall use or attempt to use his/her official position to secure unwarranted privileges or advantages for himself/herself or others.
(C) No city government officer or employee shall solicit or accept any gift having a fair market value of more than one hundred dollars ($100.00), per organization, per calendar year, whether in the form of money, service, loan, travel, entertainment, hospitality, thing or promise, or any other form under circumstances in which it could reasonably be inferred that the gift was intended to influence, or could reasonably be expected to influence the officer or employee in the performance of his/her public duties. This provision shall not apply to the solicitation or acceptance of contributions to the campaign of an announced candidate for elected public office as governed by the Kentucky Revised Statutes.
(D) No city government officer, employee or agent shall be prohibited from giving or receiving an award publicly presented in recognition of public service, commercially reasonable loans made in the ordinary course of the lender’s business, or reasonable hosting, including travel and expenses, entertainment, meals or refreshments furnished in connection with public events, appearances, ceremonies or fact finding trips related to official county government business.
(E) No city government officer, employee or agent shall use, or allow to be used, his/her public office or employment, or any information, not generally available to the members of the public which he/she receives or acquires in the course of and by reason of his/her office or employment, for the purpose of securing financial gain for himself, any member of his/her immediate family, or any business organization with which he is associated except under the “rule of necessity.”
(F) No city government officer or agent shall be deemed in conflict with these provisions, if, by reason of his/her participation in the enactment of any ordinance, resolution or other matter required to be voted upon or which is subject to executive approval or veto, no material or monetary gain accrues to him/her as a member of any business, profession, occupation or group, to any greater extent than any gain could reasonably be expected to accrue to any other member of such business, profession, occupation or group.
(G) No elected city government officer shall be prohibited from making an inquiry for information of providing assistance on behalf of a constituent, if no fee, reward or other thing of value is promised to, given to or accepted by the officer or a member of his/her immediate family, whether directly or indirectly, in return therefore.
(H) Nothing shall prohibit any city government officer, employee or agent or members of his/her immediate family, from representing himself/herself, or themselves, in negotiations or proceedings concerning his/her, or their, own interests.
(Ord. 94-013, passed 12-12-94) Penalty, see § 10.99