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HomeMy Public PortalAbout01054 REPEALED 10/11/89 BY NO. 7923 O R D I N A N C E NO. 1054 AN ORDINANCE, prescribing standards for officers and employees in the conduct of their official actions and their relations with other persons, with penalty provisions. BE IT ORDAINED BY THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE METROPOLITAN ST. LOUIS SEWER DISTRICT: Section One. As used in this ordinance, unless the context clearly requires otherwise, the following terms have the meanings indicated: 1. "Business entity", a corporation, association, firm, partnership, proprietorship, or business enterprise of any kind or character. 2. "District", The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District. 3. "Officer or employee", any Member of the Board of Trustees or of the Civil Service Commission or any other officer or employee in the unclassified or classified service of the District. 4. "Substantial interest", ownership by the individual, his spouse or anyone related to him in the first or second degree of consanguinity or affinity as computed according to the rules of the civil law, directly or indirectly, of ten per cent or more of any business entity, or of an interest having a value of ten thousand dollars or more. 2 Section Two. The Board of Trustees of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District shall transact all of its official business at public meetings and shall keep a record of such meetings. Said record shall contain all appearances before it of anyone who appears before the Board, including any agents, rep- resentatives and attorneys appearing formally or informally on behalf of any person, firm or corporation or association. This record shall be kept by the Secretary-Treasurer and shall be open to the public inspection. Section Three. Any officer or employee who has a substantial interest in any ordinance, rule, regulation, agreement, or other action proposed or pending before the Board of Trustees of the District shall, before passage thereof, report the nature of the interest to the Board of Trustees thereof before its further consideration of such matter, and such statement shall be recorded in the journal of the Board's proceedings. Section Four. No officer or employee shall knowingly transact any business in his official capacity with any business entity of which he is an officer, agent, or member or in which he owns a substantial interest unless that business entity provides a service which is unavailable from any other source and for which the rates are fixed by an agency of the United States Government or the State of Missouri; nor shall he knowingly make any personal investments in any enterprise which will create a substantial conflict between his private interest and the public interest; nor 3 shall he or any firm or business entity of which he is an officer, agent or member, or the owner of substantial interest, knowingly sell any goods or services to The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District. Nothing herein contained shall be construed to prohibit any firm or association in which any officer or employee of the District is a member from transacting business with the District, where the officer or employee of the District does not share in the profits resulting therefrom. Section Five. No officer or employee of The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District shall enter into any private business transactions with any person or entity that has a matter pending or which he has knowledge is to be pending upon which the officer or employee is or will be called upon to render a decision or pass judgment. If any officer or employee is already engaged in the business transaction at the time that a matter arises, he shall be disqualified from rendering any decision or passing any judgment upon the same. Section Six. Any person failing to comply with the provisions of this ordinance shall be charged with misfeasance in office and appropriate disciplinary action shall be taken. 4 The foregoing Ordinance was adopted October 4, 1963.