A. 
Any Township officer or employee shall, within 30 days of taking office and by March First each year of service, file with the Manager, as a public record, a notarized full disclosure statement setting forth all real estate located within the Township owned at the present time or within the past two years, by himself or by any member of his immediate family, or any ownership of, interest in, or employment by any business interest located within the Township by himself or any members of his immediate family at present or within the past two years; or ownership of, interest in or employment by any business interest or corporation which has done business to any appreciable degree with the Township within the past five years.
B. 
In any case where a Township officer or official, elected or appointed, knows or by the exercise of reasonable diligence could know that he is interested to any appreciable degree, either directly or indirectly, in any contract for the sale or furnishing of any personal property for the use of the Township of more than $300 in any year, he shall notify the Council thereof, and any such contract shall not be passed and approved by the Council except by an affirmative vote of at least 3/4 of the members thereof. The provisions of this section shall not apply to cases where such officer or official is an employee of the person, firm or corporation to which money is to be paid in a capacity with no possible influence on the transaction and in which he cannot possibly be benefited thereby, either financially or in any other material manner. Any officer or officials who shall knowingly violate the provisions of this section shall be liable to the Township upon his bond, if any, or personally, to the extent of the damage shown to be sustained thereby by the Township, to ouster from office, and shall be guilty of a misdemeanor; and upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding $500, or imprisonment not exceeding one year, or both.
No candidate for office, appointment, or employment and no officer, appointee or employee of the Township 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.
If any provision of this Charter is held invalid, the other provisions of the Charter shall not be affected thereby. If the application of this Charter or any of its provisions to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the application of the Charter and its provisions to other persons or circumstances shall not be affected thereby.
At all places in this Charter words used in a masculine gender shall include the feminine.
The Council shall provide in the Administrative Code for the bonding of all officers and employees who are responsible for the handling and/or authorization of receipts, disbursements, goods and supplies. The premiums for such bonds shall be paid by the Township.
This Charter shall become effective on the second day of January 1978, except as otherwise stated herein, and except for the transitional provisions of Article IX which shall become effective upon certification of the adoption of this Charter.