No officer or employee elected or appointed in any municipality
shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract or job
for work or materials or the profits thereof to be furnished or performed
for the municipality, and no such officer or employee shall be interested,
directly or indirectly, in any contract or job for work or materials
or the profits thereof to be furnished or performed for any person
operating any interurban railways, street railway, gasworks, waterworks,
electric light or power plant, heating plant, telegraph line, telephone
exchange or other public utility within the territorial limits of
such municipality.
(Source: L. 1950, c. 210, § 17-14, p. 509.)
No officer or employee shall accept or receive, directly or
indirectly, from any person operating within the territorial limits
of a municipality, any interurban railway, street railway, gasworks,
waterworks, electric light or power plant, heating plant, telegraph
line, telephone exchange or other business using or operating under
a public franchise any frank, free pass, free ticket or free service,
or accept or receive, directly or indirectly, from any person any
other service upon terms more favorable than is granted to the public
generally, except that such prohibition of free transportation shall
not apply to policemen or firemen in uniform, nor shall any free service
to the municipal officials heretofore provided by any franchise or
ordinance be affected by this section.
(Source: L. 1950, c. 210, § 17-15, p. 509.)
No candidate for office, appointment or employment and no officer,
appointee or employee in any municipality shall, directly or indirectly,
give or promise any person any office, position, employment, benefit
or anything of value for the purpose of influencing or obtaining the
political support, aid or vote of any person under the penalty of
being disqualified to hold the office or employment to which he may
be or may have been elected or appointed.
(Source: L. 1950, c. 210, § 17-16, p. 509.)
Any person convicted of a crime or offense involving moral turpitude shall be ineligible to assume any municipal office, position or employment in a municipality governed pursuant to this Act and, upon conviction thereof while in office, shall forfeit his office; provided, however, that any person convicted of such an offense who has achieved a degree of rehabilitation which, in the opinion of the appointing authority and the Civil Service Commission, as to employment subject to the Civil Service Law, indicates his employment would not be incompatible with the welfare of society and the aims and objectives of the governmental agency may be considered eligible to apply for employment or be continued in employment. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of § C7-1, C7-2 or C7-3 of this article shall, upon conviction thereof in a court of competent jurisdiction, forfeit his office.
(Source: L. 1950, c. 210, § 17-17, p. 510; amended
L. 1966, c. 200, § 1; L. 1970, c. 82, § 1.)
If any person hereafter elected or appointed to any office or
position in a municipality governed under this Act shall, after lawful
notice or process, willfully refuse or fail to appear before any court,
any legislative committee or the governor or, having appeared, shall
refuse to testify or to answer any question regarding property, government
or affairs of the municipality or regarding his nomination, election,
appointment or official conduct on the ground that his answer would
tend to incriminate him or shall refuse to waive immunity from prosecution
on account of any such matter in relation to which he may be asked
to testify may be removed from office by the governing body of the
municipality in its discretion. Any person removed from office pursuant
to this section shall not thereafter be eligible for election or appointment
to any office or employment in such municipality.
(Source: L. 1950, c. 210, § 17-18, p. 510.)
