[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council of the Borough
of Edgewater 3-19-1968 by Ord. No. 484 (Ch. 37 of the 1975 Code).
Amendments noted where applicable.]
As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the
meanings indicated:
- OFFICIAL
- Includes the Mayor and Councilmen; Borough Clerk, Borough Treasurer, Tax Assessor, Tax Collector, Borough Attorney, Borough Engineer, Borough Auditor and the assistant or assistants to any of them; and any other elected or appointed official of any board, commission or agency and advisory board, whether paid or unpaid, created by the Mayor or the governing body of the Borough of Edgewater.
No official, whether paid or unpaid, shall engage in any business
or transaction or shall have a financial or other personal interest,
direct or indirect, which is incompatible with the proper discharge
of his official duties in the public interest or would tend to impair
his independence of judgment or action in the performance of his official
duties.
No official shall engage in or accept private employment or
render services for private interests when such employment is incompatible
with the proper discharge of his official duties or would tend to
impair his independence of judgment or action in the performance of
his official duties.
No official shall represent private interests before the Borough
Council or before any board, commission or agency of the Borough.
He shall not represent private interests in any action or proceeding
against the interests of the Borough in any litigation to which the
Borough is a party.
Any official who has a financial interest in any transaction
or contract with the Borough, or in the sale or purchase of real estate,
materials, supplies or services to or from the Borough, shall make
known to the Mayor and Council in writing such interest in any matter
on which he may be called to act in his official capacity. He shall
refrain from voting upon or otherwise participating in the transaction
or the making of such contract, sale or purchase.
A.
No Councilman or member of the governing body or of any agency thereof
shall vote for the adoption or defeat of any legislation or for the
payment or nonpayment of any indebtedness owing or allegedly owing
by the Borough in which he has any financial or other personal interest
direct or indirect, nor shall any official recommend or lobby for
the adoption or defeat of any legislation or for the institution or
defeat of any legal or quasi-legal action whatever in which he has
or may have a financial or other personal interest, direct or indirect.
B.
Any official who has or may have such interest in such legislation,
indebtedness or action, and who participates in discussion with or
gives an official opinion to the Borough Council or agency with respect
thereto, shall disclose on the records of the Borough Council or agency
the nature and extent of such interest.
The Mayor and Council of the Borough of Edgewater is hereby
created as a Board of Ethics under this chapter and said Board shall
render advisory opinions with respect to any question arising under
this Code of Ethics. Such opinions shall be rendered upon written
request of the official concerned with the possible violation of the
terms and conditions herein set forth.
