[Ord. of 9-13-1971, § 1]
(a) 
The public judges its government by the way public officials and employees conduct themselves in the posts to which they are elected or appointed.
(b) 
The people have a right to expect that every public official and employee will conduct himself in a manner that will tend to preserve public confidence in and respect for the government he represents.
(c) 
Such confidence and respect can best be promoted if every public official and employee, whether paid or unpaid, and whether elected or appointed, will uniformly:
(1) 
Treat all citizens with courtesy, impartiality, fairness and equality under the law; and
(2) 
Avoid both actual and potential conflicts between their private self-interest and the public interest.
(d) 
To help public officials and employees achieve these goals is one of the objectives of this division.
[Ord. of 9-13-1971, § 2]
The terms used in this division are hereby defined as follows:
FINANCIAL INTEREST
Any interest which shall yield, directly or indirectly, a monetary or other material benefit, other than the duly authorized salary or compensation for his services to the municipality, to the official or employee or to any person employing or retaining the services of the official or employee.
OFFICIAL OR EMPLOYEE
Any person elected or appointed to, or employed or retained by, any public office or public body of the municipality, whether paid or unpaid and whether part-time or full-time.
PERSONAL INTEREST
Any interest arising from blood or marriage relationships or from close business or political association whether or not any financial interest is involved.
PUBLIC BODY
Any agency, board, body, commission, committee, department or office of the municipality.
[Ord. of 9-13-1971, § 3]
No official or employee shall request, use or permit the use of, any consideration, treatment, advantage or favor beyond that which it is the general practice to grant or make available to the public at large.
[Ord. of 9-13-1971, § 3]
No official or employee shall request, use or permit the use of, any publicly owned or publicly supported property, vehicle, equipment, material, labor or service for the personal convenience or the private advantage of himself or of any other person. This rule shall not be deemed to prohibit an official or employee from requesting, using or permitting the use of such publicly owned or publicly supplied property, vehicle, equipment, material, labor or service which it is the general practice to make available to the public at large or which are provided as a matter of stated public policy for the use of officials and employees in the conduct of official business.
[Ord. of 9-13-1971, § 4; Ord. of 10-4-1982, § 1; Ord. of 12-5-1988]
(a) 
Disclosure of financial or personal interests. No official or employee, either on his own behalf or on behalf of any other person, shall have any financial or personal interest in any business or transaction with any public body in the City unless he shall first make full public disclosure of the nature and extent of such interest. Whenever the performance of his official duties shall require any official or employee to deliberate and vote on any matter involving his financial or personal interest, he shall publicly disclose the nature and extent of such interest and disqualify himself from participating in the deliberations as well as in the voting. At the beginning of each term, all elected officials of the City of Milford and members of the Planning and Zoning Board and Zoning Board of Appeals shall file with the City Clerk a list of real property in which they have a legal and/or equitable interest and, within 30 days, any changes thereto.
(b) 
Incompatible employment. No official or employee shall engage in private employment with, or render service for, any private person who has business transactions with any public body of the municipality unless he shall first make full public disclosure of the nature and extent of such employment or services.
(c) 
Representation of private persons. No official or employee shall use or attempt to use his official position to secure special privileges or exemptions for himself or others except as may be otherwise provided by law.
(d) 
Gifts and favors. No official or employee shall accept any gift, whether in the form of money, thing, favor, loan or promise, that would not be offered or given to him, if he were not an official or employee.
(e) 
Confidential information. No official or employee shall, without prior formal authorization of the public body having jurisdiction, disclose any confidential information concerning any other official or employee, or any other person, or any property or governmental affairs of the municipality. Whether or not it shall involve disclosure, no official or employee shall use or permit the use of any such confidential information to advance the financial or personal interest of himself or any other person.
(f) 
Participation in grievance proceedings. No City official or employee shall participate in the disposition of any grievance or grievance proceeding arising under a working or pension contract or agreement when the official or employee is bound, covered or protected directly by the contract or agreement which is the basis of the grievance.
[Ord. of 9-13-1971, § 5]
In addition to any penalty contained in any other provision of law, any person who violates any of the provisions of this division may be punished, as provided in Section 1-9 of this Code of Ordinances, for each violation, suspended or removed from office or employment as the case may be in the manner provided by law. In addition thereto, the municipality may void any purchase, contract or ruling adopted in contravention of this division.