§ 1-602. Employee responsibilities.

Each employee shall avoid any action, whether or not specifically prohibited by statute, regulation, or this chapter, which might result in or create the appearance of:

(1)

Using public office for private gain;

(2)

Giving preferential treatment to any person or organization;

(3)

Impeding government efficiency or economy;

(4)

Losing complete independence or impartiality;

(5)

Making a government decisions outside official channels;

(6)

Affecting adversely the confidence of the public in the integrity of the government;

(7)

Elected officials being in joint business ownership or in a joint consultant/management of a business with any other city employee. For the purposes of this subsection, appointed officials shall be specifically excluded from the definition of "city employee" and this subsection shall not prohibit an elected official from being in joint business ownership or in a joint consultant/management of a business with an appointed official;

(8)

Elected officials, including any immediate family member, and employees, including any immediate family member, co-owning or otherwise being principal stockholders in the same corporation. For the purposes of this subsection, appointed officials shall be specifically excluded from the definition of "city employee" and this subsection shall not prohibit an elected official, including any immediate family member, from co-owning or otherwise being principal stockholders in the same corporation, with an appointed official, including any immediate family member of an appointed official.

(Ord. No. 72-6006-07, § 2, 2-1-07; Ord. No. 22-2007-06, § 2, 9-6-07)