No officer, employee, board or commission member of the city or county, or any city or county agency, shall directly or indirectly through any other person or business, solicit or accept any gift having a fair market value of more than $100, 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, employee, board or commission member in the performance of his or her public duties.
(Prior Code, § 38.17) Penalty, see § 38.999