No person shall be appointed to, removed from, or in any way favored or discriminated against with respect to any City position or appointive City administrative office because of race, gender, age, handicap, religion, country of origin or political affiliation.
No person seeking appointment or promotion with respect to any City position or appointive City administrative office shall directly or indirectly give, render or pay any money, service or other valuable thing to any person for or in connection with his/her test, appointment, promotion or proposed promotion.
Any person convicted of a violation of this section shall be ineligible for a period of five (5) years following such conviction to hold any City office or position and, if an officer or employee of the City at the time of the violation, shall immediately forfeit his/her office or position. The Council may establish by ordinance such further penalties for such violations as it may deem appropriate.