No officer or employee elected or appointed shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract or job for work or material, or the profits thereof, to be furnished or performed for the municipality, and no such officer or employee shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract or job for work or materials, or the profits thereof, to be furnished or performed for any person operating any interurban railway, street railway, gasworks, waterworks, electric light or power plant, heating plant, telegraph line, telephone exchange or other public utility within the territorial limits of the municipality (N.J.S.A. 40:69A-163).
No officer or employee shall accept or receive, directly or indirectly, from any person operating within the territorial limits of a municipality any licensed casino hotels, interurban railway, street railway, gasworks, waterworks, electric light or power plant, heating plant, telegraph line, telephone exchange or other business using or operating under a public franchise any frank, free pass, free ticket or free service, or accept or receive, directly or indirectly, from any person any other service upon terms more favorable than are granted to the public generally, except that such prohibition of free transportation shall not apply to policemen or firemen in uniform, nor shall any free service to the municipal official heretofore provided by any franchise or ordinance be affected by this section (N.J.S.A. 40:69A-164).
No candidate for office, appointment or employment and no officer, appointee or employee shall, directly or indirectly, give or promise any person any office, position, employment, benefit or anything of value for the purpose of influencing or obtaining the political support, aid or vote of any person, under the penalty of being disqualified to hold the office or employment to which he may be or may have been elected or appointed (N.J.S.A. 40:69A-1).
Any person convicted of a crime or offense involving moral turpitude shall be ineligible to assume any municipal office, position or employment in a municipality governed pursuant to this chapter and, upon conviction thereof while in office, shall forfeit his office; provided, however, that any person convicted of such offense who has achieved a degree of rehabilitation which, in the opinion of the appointing authority and the Civil Service Commission as to employment subject to the Civil Service Law, indicates his employment would not be incompatible with the welfare of society and the aims and objectives of the governmental agency, may be considered eligible to apply for employment or be continued in employment. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of §§ 4-54, 4-55 and 4-56 of this chapter shall, upon conviction thereof in a court of competent jurisdiction, forfeit his office.
If any person hereafter elected or appointed to an office or position shall, after lawful notice or process, willfully refuse or fail to appear before any court, any legislative committee or the Governor or, having appeared, shall refuse to testify or to answer any question regarding the property, government or affairs of the municipality or regarding his nomination, election, appointment or official conduct on the ground that his answer would tend to incriminate him, or shall refuse to waive immunity from prosecution on account of any such matter in relation to which he may be asked to testify, such person may be removed from office by the Council in its discretion. Any person removed from office pursuant to this section shall not thereafter be eligible for election or appointment to any office or employment in such municipality (N.J.S.A. 40:69A-19166).