Okaloosa County BOCC — January 18, 2013 — Jacksonville Ethics Code — reading text

(v) A preferential rate or terms on a debt, loan, goods, or services, which rate is below the customary rate and is not either a government rate available to all other similar situated government employees or officials or a rate which is available to similarly situated members of the public by virtue of occupation, affiliation, age, religion, sex, or national origin; (vi) Forgiveness of indebtedness; (vii) Transportation, other than that provided to a public officer or employee by an agency in relation to officially approved governmental business, lodging or parking; Jacksonville, Florida, Code of Ordinances Page 4 of 37  TITLE XVI - JUDICIAL CODE Chapter 602 - JACKSONVILLE ETHICS CODE PART 12. - GENERAL PROVISIONS (viii) Food or beverage; (ix) Membership dues; (x) Entrance fees, admission fees, or tickets to events, performance or facilities; (xi) Plants, flowers, or floral arrangements; (xii) Services provided by persons pursuant to a professional license or certificate; (xiii) Other personal services for which a fee is normally charged by the person providing the services; (xiv) Any other similar service or thing having an attributable value not already provided for in this Section. (2) Gift does not include: (i) Salary, benefits, services, fees, commissions, or expenses associated primarily with the donee's employment or business, or provided to the donee as part of the donee's bona fide fact finding efforts on behalf of his or her agency, or provided to the donee by the city, and does not include gifts provided by the City or any governmental agency, to the extent that such gift is not inconsistent with the applicable provisions of Section 112.3148, Florida Statutes; (ii) Contributions or expenditures reported pursuant to F.S. Ch. 106, campaign-related personal services provided without compensation by individuals volunteering their time, or any other contribution or expenditure by a political party; (iii) An award, plaque, certificate, or similar personalized item given in recognition of the donee's public, civic, charitable, or professional service; (iv) An honorary membership in a service or fraternal organization presented merely as a courtesy by such organization; (v) The use of a public facility or public property, made available by a governmental agency, for a public purpose; (vi) An honorarium or an expense related to an honorarium event paid to a person or a person's spouse; (vii) Transportation provided to an officer or employee by an agency in relation to officially approved governmental business. (viii) Gifts provided directly or indirectly by a state, regional or national organization which promotes the exchange of ideas between, or the professional development of, governmental officials, officers, or employees, and whose membership is primarily composed of elected or appointed officials, officers, or staff, to members of that organization or officials, officers, or staff of a governmental agency that is a member of that organization. (ix) Gifts solicited or accepted from a relative, as that term is defined in F.S. § Jacksonville, Florida, Code of Ordinances Page 5 of 37  TITLE XVI - JUDICIAL CODE Chapter 602 - JACKSONVILLE ETHICS CODE PART 12. - GENERAL PROVISIONS 112.312(21). (3) For purposes of Section (1) above, intangible personal property means property as defined in F.S. § 192.001(11)(b). (q) Governmental action means any administrative or legislative action other than an action which is ministerial or quasi-judicial in nature. (r) Honorarium (1) Honorarium means a payment of money or anything of value, directly or indirectly, to a reporting individual or procurement employee, or to any other person on his or her behalf, as consideration for: (i) A speech, address, oration or other oral presentation by the reporting individual or procurement employee, regardless of whether presented in person, recorded, or broadcast over the media; (ii) A writing by the reporting individual or procurement employee, other than a book, which has been or is intended to be published. (2) The term honorarium does not include: (i) The payment for services related to employment held outside the reporting individual's public position which resulted in the person becoming a reporting individual; (ii) Any ordinary payment or salary received in consideration for services related to the reporting individual's or procurement employee's public duties; (iii) A campaign contribution reported pursuant to F.S. Ch. 106 (iv) The payment or provision of actual and reasonable transportation, lodging, and food and beverage expenses related to the honorarium event, including any event or meeting registration fee, for a reporting individual or procurement employee and spouse. (s) Immediate family means: (1) A spouse and (2) Any dependent minor child; while "family" includes a spouse, parent, grandparent, grandchild, child, or sibling. (t) Independent agency means the Duval County School Board, the Jacksonville Transportation Authority, the Jacksonville Port Authority, the Jacksonville Aviation Authority, the Police and Fire Pension Fund, JEA, the Jacksonville Housing Authority, and the Water and Sewer Expansion Authority. (u) Lobbying principal means any person providing compensation to a lobbyist in consideration of his or her performance of lobbying activities, regardless of the technical or legal form of the relationship between the principal and the lobbyist. Principal specifically includes a person whose employee or agent lobbies on behalf of the employer or for the benefit, or in the name of the Jacksonville, Florida, Code of Ordinances Page 6 of 37  TITLE XVI - JUDICIAL CODE Chapter 602 - JACKSONVILLE ETHICS CODE PART 12. - GENERAL PROVISIONS employer. (v) Lobbyist means any natural person who, for compensation seeks, or sought during the preceding 12 months, to influence the governmental decision making of an officer or employee of the City or seeks, or sought during the preceding 12 months, to encourage the passage, defeat, or modification of any proposal or recommendation by an officer or employee of the City. (w) Material interest means the direct ownership of more than five percent of the total assets or capital stock of a business entity. (x) Officer means any person elected to any City office and any appointed official. (y) Permitting employee means any employee of the City who participates through decision, approval, disapproval, recommendation or preparation of a permit or permit application. (z) Person includes individuals, firms, associations, joint ventures, partnerships, estates, trusts, business trusts, syndicates, fiduciaries, corporations, and all other groups or combinations. (aa) Procurement employee means any employee of the City who participates through decision, approval, disapproval, recommendation or preparation of any part of a purchase request, influencing the content of any specification or procurement standard, rendering of advice, investigation or auditing or in any other advisory capacity in the procurement of contractual services or commodities as defined in Section 287.012, Florida Statutes, and Chapter 126, Ordinance Code. (bb) Public official means: (1) Member of the City Council and Council-appointed aides; (2) The Mayor and the Mayor's appointed assistants and aides; (3) Chief Administrative Officer; (4) Head of an Executive department, appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by the Council, which also includes the Executive Director of the Human Rights Commission; (5) Deputy director of an executive department, appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by the Council; (6) Chief of a division of an executive department, appointed by the Mayor and confirmed by the Council; (7) Administrative Aide to the Mayor, appointed by the Mayor under § 6.06 of the Charter; and (8) Personal secretary to the Mayor, appointed by the Mayor under § 6.06 of the Charter; and (9) Any individual whose title under civil service is exempt or unclassified; (cc) Reporting individual means and includes: (1) Elected officials; Jacksonville, Florida, Code of Ordinances Page 7 of 37  TITLE XVI - JUDICIAL CODE Chapter 602 - JACKSONVILLE ETHICS CODE PART 12. - GENERAL PROVISIONS (2) Appointed officials; (3) Appointed employees; (4) Procurement employees. (5) Permitting employees; (6) Zoning employees. (dd) Zoning employee means any employee of the City who participates through decision, approval, disapproval, recommendation or preparation of a zoning matter or application. (Ord. 97-890-E, § 1; Ord. 1999-796-E, §§ 1, 2; Ord. 2007-329-E, § 3; Ord. 2008-839-E, § 2) PART 3. - RESERVED Editor's note— Ord. No. 2011-232-E, §§ 2 and 3 effectively repealed former Pt. 3, which pertained to misuse of city employment or city property, by renumbering the former §§ 602.301—602.312, as new §§ 601.114, 601.101, 602.703, 601.401, 601.402, 601.403, 601.404, 601.107, 601.109, 602.401, 601.111 and 601.501, respectively. PART 4. - CONFLICTS OF INTEREST SUBPART A. - CONFLICTING RELATIONSHIPS SUBPART B. - RESERVED SUBPART A. - CONFLICTING RELATIONSHIPS Sec. 602.401. - Misuse of position, information, etc. Sec. 602.402. - Activities of officers and employees in matters affecting City. Sec. 602.403. - Moonlighting provisions. Sec. 602.404. - Soliciting future employment or compensation. Sec. 602.405 - Responsibility of contracts with former employer prohibited. Sec. 602.406. - Public official bid and contract disclosure. Sec. 602.407. - Obstruction of proceedings by City officers or employees. Secs. 602.408—602.410. - Reserved. Sec.