§ 5-401. Conflicts of interest provisions applicable to city officials and employees.

(a)

Except as otherwise provided by general law, no elected official, appointed officer, or employee of the city or any office, department, or agency thereof, shall knowingly:

(1)

Engage in any business or transaction with, or have a financial or personal interest, direct or indirect, in the affairs of, the city, except through a procedure employing sealed bids;

(2)

Engage in or accept private employment or render services for private interests when such employment or service is in conflict or incompatible with the proper discharge of his or her official duties or would tend to impair his or her independence of judgment or action in the performance of official duties;

(3)

Disclose confidential information or use information, including information obtained at meetings which are closed pursuant to Title 50, Chapter 14, of the O.C.G.A., as now or hereafter amended, concerning the property, government or affairs of the city or any office, department, or agency thereof, not available to members of the public and gained by reason of his or her official position for his or her personal gain or benefit, to advance his or her financial or other private interest, or to advance the financial or private interest of any other person or business entity;

(4)

Represent other private interests in any action or proceeding against the city or any office, department, or agency thereof;

(5)

Vote or otherwise participate in the negotiation or the making of any contract with any business entity in which he or she has a financial interest.

(b)

No elected official, officer, or employee shall use property of the city for his or her personal benefit or profit except in accordance with policies and procedures of the city.

(c)

All elected officials, appointed officers or employees of the city or any office, department, or agency thereof, shall abide by any further standards of conduct adopted or as may be adopted by an ordinance of the council.

(d)

As used in this chapter, the word "relative" shall mean an individual who is related to the elected official, appointed officer, or employee as father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister, husband, wife, domestic partner registered under section 94-133, grandfather, grandmother, grandchild, mother-in-law, father-in-law, sister-in-law, brother-in-law, daughter-in-law, son-in-law, any other relative living in the household of the elected official, appointed officer, or employee or who otherwise holds himself or herself out as or is generally known as the person whom the elected official, appointed officer, or employee intends to marry or with whom the elected official, appointed officer, or employee intends to form a household, or any other natural person having the same legal residence as the elected official, appointed officer, or employee.

(1996 Ga. L. (Act No. 1019), p. 4469; Ord. No. 2006-55, § 1, 8-29-06)