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.
A. 
The following shall be applicable to all officers and employees.
B. 
The following principles shall guide the conduct of all municipal, elective and appointed officials:
(1) 
Public office or employment shall not be used for personal financial gain beyond the ordinary compensation for that position.
(2) 
No person shall offer and no official or employee shall accept anything of value on the understanding that the official's action would be influenced thereby.
(3) 
Excluding campaign contributions and gifts from close relatives, no person shall offer or no official or employee shall accept from any person gifts that exceed $100 in value in a year.
(4) 
No official or employee shall have an economic interest in any contract of $500 or more in a year with the Borough, unless it has been awarded through an open public competitive bid process.
(5) 
No official or employee shall represent a person for compensation before a governmental body unless the matter is of a ministerial nature, or is a matter of public record before a court of law.
(6) 
No official or employee shall represent a person before the Council for one year after he leaves office.
[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.
A. 
No officer or employee shall accept or receive, directly or indirectly, from any person operating within the territorial limits of the Borough of Greenville, any bus line, gas works, 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 is 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 Borough officials heretofore provided by any franchise or ordinance be affected by this section.
B. 
No employee shall accept a gift when given under the circumstances indicating the hope or expectation of receiving a favor or better treatment than that accorded the public generally.
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.