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CITY OF SOUTH BEND <br />PETE BUTTIGIEG, MAYOR <br />OFFICE OF THE MAYOR <br />Filed III Clerk's Off llcv: , <br />January 1, 2012 JUN <br />JOW <br />City of South Bend Ethics Code CITY CLER � 6.y <br />This executive order hereby establishes an Ethics Code for the City of South Bend, <br />Indiana, which will ensure that the residents of the city have officers, appointees, and employees <br />adhering to an ethical standard that is consistent, transparent, understood, and most importantly, <br />followed, in the mayor's office and in the departments and agencies throughout the city. New <br />city employees are expected to read and acknowledge this code during the hiring process. <br />1. An appointee or employee shall not knowingly solicit, accept, or receive a gift, favor, <br />service, entertainment, food, drink, travel expense, or registration fee from a person who <br />has a business relationship or seeks a business relationship with the appointee's or <br />employee's agency or department or is seeking to influence an action by the appointee. or <br />employee in his or her official capacity. <br />2. Notwithstanding section (1), an appointee or employee may accept: <br />a. Any gift, favor, service, entertainment, food, drink, travel expense or registration <br />fee that has a value of less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00), provided that the <br />appointee or employee does not knowingly solicit, accept, or receive gifts, favors, <br />services, entertainment, food, drink, travel expenses or registration fees from the <br />same person or his or her employer that have a cumulative value of more than one <br />hundred dollars ($100.00) in any calendar year. <br />1400 COUNTY -CITY BUILDING - 227 W. JEFFERSON BOULEVARD - SOUTH BEND, INDIANA 46601 <br />PHONE 574/235 -9261 • FAx 574/235 -9892 EXHIBIT <br />N <br />d <br />a <br />a rtCn <br />a <br />