A.
No Town officer or employee shall have any interest, financial or
otherwise, direct or indirect, or engage in any employment, business,
transaction or professional activity, or incur any obligation of any
nature, which is in substantial conflict with the proper discharge
of the Town officer's or employee's duties in the public
interest.
B.
No Town officer or employee shall have an interest in any contract
with the Town when such Town officer or employee, whether individually
or as a member of a board, has the power or duty to negotiate, prepare,
authorize or approve such contract or payment thereunder, audit bills
or claims under such contract or appoint an officer or employee who
has any of the powers or duties set forth herein.
C.
No chief fiscal officer, treasurer or deputy or employee of the Town
shall have an interest in a bank or trust company designated as a
depository of funds of the municipality. This subsection does not
prohibit ownership of up to 5% of the outstanding shares of such bank
or trust company.
D.
No Town officer or employee shall accept employment or engage in
any business or professional activity which will require such Town
officer or employee to disclose confidential information gained by
reason of such person's official position or authority. Town
officers and employees and former Town officers and employees shall
not disclose any confidential information acquired by them in the
course of their official duties or use it to further personal interests.
E.
No Town officer or employee shall use or attempt to use such person's
official position to secure unwarranted privileges or exemptions for
such Town officer or employee or for any third party.
F.
No Town officer or employee shall engage in any transaction as representative
or agent of the Town with any business entity in which such Town officer
or employee has a direct or indirect financial interest that might
reasonably tend to conflict with the proper discharge of such person's
official duties.
G.
Each Town officer or employee shall refrain from making personal
investments in enterprises which such Town officer or employee has
reason to believe may be directly involved in decisions to be made
by such person or which will otherwise create substantial conflict
between such person's duty in the public interest and such person's
private interest.
H.
Each Town officer or employee shall disclose any interest of which
such Town officer or employee is aware that such person has in any
matters pending before any board of the Town.
I.
No Town officer or employee shall, 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, services, loans, travel, entertainment,
hospitality, things or promises, or in any other form under such circumstances
in which it could reasonably be inferred that the gift was intended
to influence or could reasonably be expected to influence such Town
officer or employee in the performance of official duties or was intended
as a reward for any official action.
J.
A Town officer or employee shall promptly withdraw from any participation
or action on any matter before the Town when acting on the matter,
or failing to act on the matter, may financially benefit any of the
following persons:
(1)
The Town officer or employee or spouse thereof;
(2)
The Town officer's or employee's outside employer or business;
(3)
Any person who has resided in the same dwelling unit as the Town
officer or employee for more than 120 calendar days in the current
or immediately preceding calendar year;
(4)
A customer or client of the Town officer or employee;
(5)
The Town officer's or employee's parent or other direct
ancestor, sibling, or child or other direct descendant, or a spouse
of any of the foregoing; or
(6)
A person from whom the Town officer or employee has received election
campaign contributions of more than $1,000 in the aggregate during
the past 12 months.
K.
No Town officer or employee shall use Town resources in furtherance
of campaign activities, including, but not limited to, mass mailings,
telephones, office supplies, postage, copying machines, computers
or support staff.
L.
No Town officer or employee shall knowingly act contrary to a lawful
resolution or motion duly adopted by the Town Board.
Any Town officer or employee who has, will have or later acquires
an interest in an actual or proposed contract with the Town or other
matter pending before any board or agency thereof shall publicly disclose
the nature and extent of such interest, in writing, to such board
or agency and to the Town Board as soon as the Town officer or employee
has knowledge of such actual or prospective interest.
A.
Disciplinary action. Any Town officer or employee who engages in
any action that violates any provision of this chapter may be warned
or reprimanded or be subject to any other sanction authorized by law
or collective bargaining agreement by the appointing authority or
person or body authorized by law to impose such sanctions. A warning,
reprimand or other authorized sanction may be imposed in addition
to any other penalty contained in this chapter or in any other provision
of law.
B.
Damages. A Town officer or employee who violates any provision of this chapter shall be liable in damages to the Town for any losses or increased costs incurred by the Town as a result of the violation. Such damages may be imposed in addition to any other penalty contained in any other provision of law or in this chapter, other than a civil forfeiture pursuant to Subsection C of this section.
C.
Civil forfeiture. A Town officer or employee who intentionally or knowingly violates any provision of this chapter may be subject to a civil forfeiture to the Town of a sum equal to three times the value of any financial benefit the Town officer or employee received as a result of the conduct that constituted the violation. A civil forfeiture may be imposed in addition to any other penalty contained in any other provision of law or in this chapter, other than a civil fine pursuant to Subsection D or damages pursuant to Subsection B of this section.
D.
Violation. A Town officer or employee who intentionally or knowingly
violates any provision of this chapter may be guilty of a violation
and be subject to a maximum fine of $250 for each such violation or
a fifteen-day term of imprisonment, or both.
