Ord 2022-092/amending the San Marcos Code of Ethics to add provisions relating to review by the Ethics Review Commission (ERC) of Annual Financial Disclosure statements submitted by City Council members

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Mf The commission shall review financial disclosure forms submitted under Section 2.462(a)by city council members, planning and zoning commissioners, city manager, city attorney, cleric, and municipal court judge. fg) The commission shall review campaign finance reports on file with the city clerk to determine compliance with the individual contribution limit and aggregate fund-raising limits on campaign contributions set by Sections 2.467 and 2.468. SECTION 2. Section 2.463.1 is hereby added to the San Marcos City Code to read as follows: Sec. 2.463.1. Review of financial disclosure statements (a) The Ethics Review Commission shall review the financial disclosure statements submitted by council members, planning and zoning commissioners, citymanager,city attorney, clerk and municipal court Judge under Section 2.462(a). LbJ The Commission may request correction, clarification, or explanation of information contained in such financial disclosure statements or completion of any missing information. All requests must be in writing and contain an explanation of the reasons why the Commission has requested a response from the officer or employee. (c) Upon receipt of a request from the Commission under the preceding subsection, the officer or employee shall either file a corrected financial disclosure statement with the city cleric or submit a written reply to the Commission within thirty (30) calendar dam SECTION 3. Section 2.469 is hereby added to the San Marcos City Code to read as follows: Sec. 2.469. Review of individual and aggregate campaign contributions At least one time per calendar year, the Ethics Review Commission shall review the campaign finance reports on file with the city clerk to determine compliance with the individual contribution limit in Section 2.467 and the aggregate fund-raising limits in Section 2.468. SECTION 4. If any word, phrase, clause, sentence, or paragraph of this ordinance is held to be unconstitutional or invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, the other provisions of this ordinance will continue in force if they can be given effect without the invalid portion. SECTION 5. All ordinances and resolutions or parts of ordinances or resolutions in conflict with this ordinance are repealed.