[Amended 4-5-2006 by L.L. No. 3-2006; 11-18-2020 by L.L. No. 16-2020
As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the following meanings:
A direct or indirect pecuniary or material benefit accruing
to a municipal officer, employee or contract professional as the result
of a business or professional transaction with the Town of Glenville.
For the purpose of this chapter, a municipal officer, employee or
contract professional shall be deemed to have an interest in the affairs
of his or her spouse, minor children and dependents; a firm, partnership
or association of which such officer, employee or contract professional
is a member or employee; a corporation of which such officer, employee
or contract professional is an officer, director or employee; and
a corporation, any stock of which is owned or controlled directly
or indirectly by such officer, employee or contract professional.
Any board, commission, district, council or other agency,
department or unit of the government of the Town of Glenville.
Any officer or employee of the Town of Glenville, whether
paid or unpaid, whether serving in a full-time, part-time or advisory
capacity.
A.
No Town
employee shall have any interest, financial or otherwise, direct or
indirect, or engage in any business or transaction or professional
activity or incur any obligation of any nature which is in substantial
conflict with the proper discharge of his duties in the public interest.
B.
A Town employee
engaging in a conflict of interest with their Town employment or office
shall recuse him-/herself from discussing and/or voting on the matter
under consideration. The Town employee shall disclose in writing to
the Board of Ethics the nature of the interest when the interest first
comes before the Town employee or when s/he acquires knowledge of
the interest, whichever is earlier.
No municipal officer or employee shall:
A.
Directly or indirectly, solicit any gift, or accept
or receive any gift having a value of $75 or more, whether in the
form of money, service, loan, travel, entertainment, hospitality,
thing or promise, or in any other form, under circumstances in which
it could reasonably be inferred that the gift was intended to influence
him or her, or could reasonably be expected to influence him or her,
in the performance of his or her official duties or was intended as
a reward for any official action on his or her part;
B.
Disclose confidential information acquired by him
or her in the course of his or her official duties or use such information
to further his or her personal interests;
C.
Receive, or enter into any agreement, express or implied,
for compensation for services to be rendered in relation to any matter
before any municipal agency of which he or she is an officer, member
or employee or of any municipal agency over which he or she has jurisdiction
or to which he or she has the power to appoint any member, officer
or employee;
D.
Receive, or enter into any agreement, express or implied,
for compensation for services to be rendered in relation to any matter
before any agency of his or her municipality, whereby his or her compensation
is to be dependent or contingent upon any action by such agency with
respect to such matter, provided that this subsection shall not prohibit
the fixing at any time of fees based upon the reasonable value of
the services rendered;
E.
During his or her tenure as a municipal officer or employee, engage
in any employment, including the rendition of any business, commercial,
professional or other types of services, when the employment or services
create a conflict with or impairs his or her independence of judgment
or the proper discharge of his or her official duties;
F.
At any time after serving as a municipal officer or employee, represent
or render services to a private person or organization in connection
with any particular transaction in which he or she personally and
substantially participated while serving as a municipal officer or
employee;
G.
Hold investments that would otherwise impair the person's independence
of judgment in the exercise or performance of his or her official
powers and duties;
H.
Fail to disclose any interest in legislation. To the extent that
he or she knows thereof, a member of the Town Board and any officer
or employee of the Town, whether paid or unpaid, who participates
in the discussion or gives official opinion to the Town Board on any
legislation before the Board shall publicly disclose on the official
record the nature and extent of any direct or indirect financial or
other personal interest he or she has in such legislation. The disclosure
shall be made when the matter requiring disclosure first comes before
the municipal officer or employee, or when the municipal officer or
employee first acquires knowledge of the interest requiring disclosure,
whichever is earlier.
In addition to any penalty contained in any
other provision of law, any such Town employee who shall knowingly
and intentionally violate any of the provisions of this chapter may
be fined, suspended or removed from office or employment in the manner
provided by law.
