As used in this chapter, the following terms shall have the meanings
indicated.
Any board, commission, district, council or other agency, department
or unit of the government of the Town of East Bloomfield.
Any officer or employee of the Town of East Bloomfield, whether paid
or unpaid, whether serving in a full-time, part-time or advisory capacity.
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.
A.
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, 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 in the
performance of his official duties or was intended as a reward for any official
action on his part.[1]
B.
No town employee shall accept other employment which
will impair his independence of judgment in the exercise of his official duties.
C.
No town employee shall accept employment or engage in
any business or professional activity which will require him to disclose confidential
information which he has gained by reason of his official position or authority.
D.
No town employee shall use or attempt to use his official
position to secure unwarranted privileges or exemptions for use himself or
others.
E.
No town employee shall engage in any transaction as representative
or agent of the town with any business entity in which he has a direct or
indirect financial interest that might reasonably tend to conflict with the
proper discharge of his official duties.
F.
A town employee shall not by his conduct give reasonable
basis for the impression that any person can improperly influence him or unduly
enjoy his favor in the performance of his official duties, or that he is affected
by the kinship, rank, position or influence of any party or person.
G.
Each town employee shall abstain from making personal
investments in enterprises which he has reason to believe may be directly
involved in decisions to be made by him or which will otherwise create substantial
conflict between his duty in the public interest and his private interest.
H.
Each town employee shall endeavor to pursue a course
of conduct which will not raise suspicion among the public that he is likely
to be engaged in acts that are in violation of his trust.
I.
No town employee employed on a full-time basis nor any
firm or association of which such employee is a member, nor corporation (a
substantial portion of the stock of which is owned or controlled directly
or indirectly by such employee), shall sell goods or services to any person,
firm, corporation or association which is licensed or whose rates are fixed
by the town in which such employee serves or is employed.
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.