The following prohibitions shall be applicable to all officials
and employees of the Borough:
A. No person shall willfully make any false statement, certificate,
mark, rating or report in regard to any test, certification, evaluation
or appointment made under any provision of this chapter or in any
manner commit or attempt to commit any fraud preventing the impartial
execution of this chapter.
B. No person shall directly or indirectly give, render, pay, offer,
solicit or accept any money, service or other valuable thing for or
in connection with any test for, appointment to, proposed appointment
to, promotion to or proposed appointment to, promotion to or proposed
promotion to any Borough position.
C. No person shall define, deceive or obstruct any person in his right
to examination, eligibility, certification or appointment under this
chapter, or furnish to any person any special or secret information
for the purpose of affecting the rights or prospects of any person
with respect to employment in the career service.
D. No person shall use or promise to use, directly or indirectly, any
official authority as influence, whether possessed or anticipated,
to secure or attempt to secure for any employee in the career service
an increase in pay or other advantage in employment, for the purpose
of influencing the vote or political action of the employee.
E. No person shall solicit any assessment, subscription, contribution
or service, or the promise of any assessment, subscription, contribution
or service for any political party from any employee in the career
service during the employee's working hours.
The following prohibitions shall apply to employees in the career
service:
A. No employee in the career service shall take part in any political
campaign, except to exercise his right as citizen privately, to express
his opinion and to cast his vote.
B. No employee in the career service shall at any time or attempt to
use his position with the Borough as a means of implementing or promoting
the solicitation of any assessment, subscription, contribution or
service for any political party.
[Amended 8-8-2006 by Ord. No. 1455]
In any case where an elected or appointed officer or official
of the Borough knows, or by the exercise of reasonable diligence could
know, that he or she is interested to any appreciable degree, either
directly or indirectly, in any contract for the sale or furnishing
of any property for the use of the Borough, or for any services to
be rendered for the Borough involving the expenditure by the Borough
of more than $300 in any year, he or she shall notify Council thereof;
any such contract shall not be passed and approved by Council except
by an affirmative vote of at least 3/4 of the members thereof. In
case the interested officer is a member of Council, he or she shall
refrain from voting upon such contract. 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 or she 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 Borough upon his or her bond, if any, or personally, to the extent
of the damage shown to be sustained thereby by the Borough, to ouster
from office and shall be guilty of an offense and upon conviction
thereof, shall be sentenced to pay a fine not exceeding $600 plus
costs and, in default of payment of said fine and costs, to a term
of imprisonment not to exceed 30 days.
The following shall be applicable to Borough elected officials,
appointing authorities, and the Manager. Unless the Council shall,
by unanimous vote, determine that the best interest of the Borough
is served, the following relatives of any Borough elected officials
or Manager may not be appointed or promoted to a paid career service
position of employment during the term for which the elective or appointive
officer is elected or appointed: spouse, child, parent, grandchild,
grandparent or the spouse of any of them. All relations shall include
those arising from adoption.