Executive Order 1-2012: City of South Bend Ethics Code

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SovTxsF „G 1865 CITY OF SOUTH BEND PETE BUTTIGIEG, MAYOR OFFICE OF THE MAYOR January 1, 2012 City of South Bend Ethics Code This executive order hereby establishes an Ethics Code for the City of South Bend, Indiana, which will ensure that the residents of the city have officers, appointees, and employees adhering to an ethical standard that is consistent,transparent,understood, and most importantly, followed, in the mayor's office and in the departments and agencies throughout the city. New city employees are expected to read and acknowledge this code during the hiring process. I. An appointee or employee shall not knowingly solicit, accept, or receive a gift, favor, service, entertainment, food, drink, travel expense, or registration fee from a person who has a business relationship or seeks a business relationship with the appointee's or employee's agency or department or is seeking to influence an action by the appointee or employee in his or her official capacity. 2. Notwithstanding section(1), an appointee or employee may accept: a. Any gift, favor, service, entertainment, food, drink, travel expense or registration fee that has a value of less than twenty-five dollars ($25.00),provided that the appointee or employee does not knowingly solicit, accept, or receive gifts, favors, services, entertainment, food, drink, travel expenses or registration fees from the same person or his or her employer that have a cumulative value of more than one hundred dollars ($100.00) in any calendar year. 1400 COUNTY-CITY BUILDING•227 W.JEFFERSON BOULEVARD•SOUTH BEND,INDIANA 46601 PHONE 574/235-9261 • FAx 574/235-9892