Ord 2017-020/amending Chapter 2, Article 5, Code of Ethics, of the San Marcos City Code; requiring Financial Disclosure Forms to be updated within 30 days following acquisition of additional interests in real property; requiring Financial Disclosure Form

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violate subsection (a), or a state conflict of interest law, if he or she took an action must abstain from participation in the action in accordance with the following: (1) Immediately refrain from further participation in the matter, including communications with any persons likely to consider the matter, such as any department, agency, commission or board of the city, from the time he or she discovers or reasonably should have discovered the matter triggering the recusal and until a decision regarding the matter has been made by the council, board or commission having final approval authority. (2) Promptly file a form for disclosing the nature and extent of the interest triggering the recusal with the city clerk, if the person is an official, or with the person's supervisor, if the person is an employee; (3) Promptly notify the person's supervisor of the nature and extent of the interest triggering the recusal, if the person is a city employee, so that the supervisor can reassign responsibility for handling the matter to another person; and (4) Promptly disclose the interest triggering the recusal, if the person is a member of a city board or commission, to other members of the board or commission, and leave the room in which the board or commission is meeting during the board or commission's discussion of, or voting on, the matter. Sec. 2.424. Standards of conduct. (a) Standards for immediate family members. It is unlawful for an immediate family member to intentionally or knowingly: (1) Solicit, accept or agree to accept from another person any benefit that the member's relative, who is a city officer or employee, is prohibited from soliciting, accepting or agreeing to accept under state law; (2) Misuse any official information obtained from the member's relative, who is a city officer or employee, to which the relative has access by virtue of the relative's office or employment and that has not been made public, in a manner prohibited as to the relative under state law; or (3) Misuse, as defined in V.T.C.A., Penal Code §39.01, any city property, services, personnel or any other thing of value belonging to the city that has come into the member's custody or possession by virtue of the office or employment of the member's relative who is a city officer or employee. (b) Representation and appearance at meetings. No city officer or employee shall knowingly: (1) Appear before the body of which the officer or employee is a member, as a representative for any private person, including the officer or employee or any immediate