[Adopted 4-19-1976 (§ 2-3
of the 2007 Code)]
No City officer, employee or agent shall solicit or accept any gratuity, favor or anything of monetary value from any contractor or potential contractor with the City relative to the procurement of any supplies, equipment, construction and/or other services with municipal, state and/or federal grant funds, and the offering and/or giving of any such matter of monetary value by such a contractor or its agents to any City officer, employee or agent is hereby prohibited. A violation of the provisions of this section shall subject the offending municipal employee to disciplinary action, including discharge of employment, and in addition thereto all violators shall be subject to the penalty provisions of §
1-8 of the City Code.
[Adopted 8-4-1997 (Ch.
2, Art IX, of the 2007 Code)]
[Amended 2-9-2004]
As used in this article, the following terms shall have the
following meanings:
FINANCIAL INVOLVEMENT
Any existing or current efforts toward achieving ownership
or investment interest, contract right, significant customer relationship,
or employment relationship with a public official or a person with
whom the public official has a personal relationship.
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
MUNICIPAL BOARD
The Westbrook City Council, Planning Board, Zoning Board
of Appeals, Public Safety Commission, and Board of Assessment Review.
PARTICIPATING IN A MATTER
Action by a public official to vote, decide, deliberate,
influence or direct others in regard to matters currently before or
anticipated as coming before a municipal board or which involve the
operation of municipal government, including personnel administration.
PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP
Any family, affectional, or social relationship that is characterized
by one or more of the following:
A.
Persons who are husband and wife, or parent and child, or siblings;
[Amended at time of adoption of Code (see Ch. 1, General
Provisions, Art. II)]
B.
Persons who share a physical intimacy with each other;
C.
Persons who acknowledge an ongoing romantic relationship with
each other;
D.
Persons who live together in the same residence;
E.
Persons who intermingle their financial assets without an accounting
of separate ownership interests.
PUBLIC OFFICIAL
Any person holding an elected municipal office, any person
holding an appointed position on a municipal board, the City Administrator,
and the department heads and administrators of municipal departments.