Officials, employees, their spouse/equivalents or any person or entity
acting on their behalf may not solicit or accept monetary gifts or loans of
any amount or promise thereof or any gift, including services, entertainment,
thing or promise thereof, having a value of $75 or more from any person or
agent of a person, corporation, partnership, unincorporated association or
other entity who or which the official or employee knows is considering or
has had, within the previous 12 months, any business dealing with the Town
of Stony Point that involves any discretionary act by the official or employee.
Except as required by law, officials and employees may not disclose
confidential information acquired during the course of their official duties
or use such information to further their personal interests or the personal
interest of their families.
Any person who intentionally induces or attempts to induce any official
or employee to take any action or refrain from taking any action, which action
or inaction violates any provision of this chapter, shall be guilty of a Class
A misdemeanor and shall be barred from doing business with the Town of Stony
Point for a period of five years.
Nothing herein shall be deemed to bar the timely filing by a present
or former official or employee of any claim, demand or suit against the town
of behalf of him/herself or his/her family arising out of any personal injury
or property damage or for any lawful benefit or from receiving a municipal
service or benefit that is generally available to the public.
Violation of this chapter will be a Class A misdemeanor, subject to
the penalties provided in § 813 of the General Municipal Law, including
forfeiture of office or employment and liability for all damages and fines.
A person subject to this chapter found for the first time to be in violation
of its terms by reason of failing to file or make a required disclosure statement
shall be subject to a maximum civil penalty of $500 or a maximum criminal
fine of $500. Any such person found for the second time to be in violation
of the terms of this chapter by reason of failing to file or make a required
disclosure statement shall be subject to a maximum civil penalty of $10,000
or a maximum criminal fine of not more than $10,000.