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INTRODUCTORY*
CITY OF BALTIMORE
COUNCIL BILL
Introduced by: President Young
At the request of: Ethics Board
A BILL ENTITLED
AN ORDINANCE concerning
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Public Ethics Law - Gifts to Elected Officials
FOR the purpose of expanding certain provisions to prohibit elected officials from soliciting or accepting certain gifts from any person who does or seeks to do business with the City, engages or seeks to engage in an activity regulated or controlled by the City, or is or recently has been a lobbyist; correcting, clarifying, and conforming related provisions; providing for a special effective date; and generally relating to ethics in the public sector.
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BY repealing and reordaining, with amendments
Article 8 - Ethics
Section(s) 6-26 and 6-27
Baltimore City Code
(Edition 2000)
SECTION 1. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE, That the Laws of Baltimore City read as follows:
Baltimore City Code
Article 8. Ethics
Subtitle 6. Conflicts of Interest
§ 6-26. Solicitation prohibited.
(a) [In general] PUBLIC SERVANTS GENERALLY.
Except as permitted under subsection [(b)] (C) of this section, a public servant may not solicit or facilitate the solicitation of a gift, whether on the public servant’s own behalf or on behalf of another person, from any person that the public servant knows or has reason to know:
(1) does or seeks to do business of an...
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