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• Disclosing certain confidential information or the information for personal benefit. • Using one's City position to secure any benefit. • Negotiating for or accepting future employment where a City duties. of co fidential nflict e ists with • Representing persons before City agencies, except in civio affai • Representing any person in civil litigation against the City ~r in a Court case. • Similar provisions are contained in Chapter 18, which app y to heads and executive level personnel and members of I commissions and are discussed below. nicipal rtment s and • Additionally, many requirements of Section 14-183 ove lap st e penal laws (Tx. Penal Code, Ch. 36, Bribery & Corrupt Influence) nd th Mayor's Executive Order on gifts (E.O. 1-28). I • Section 14-183(f) authorizes department heads to adopt ddition I ethics rules within their departments. Each employee should in uire a out and obtain a copy of any additional ethics rules within his or he depa ent. C. Chapter 15 (Contracts) Section 15-1 of the City Code of Ordinances contains various polic es app cable to all city employees regarding City contracts: • City employees may not bid on or be awarded any contract et by t City or have a direct or indirect pecuniary interest in City contracts This rovision is very similar to the provisions of Art. VII, § 4 of the Ch rter Icussed above, which applies to "officers" of the City. • No firm, partnership or corporation in which any employee of the ity has any ownership interest in excess of one percent of the otal o nership of the firm, partnership or corporation shall bid on or be a arded ny City contract. In the application of Section 15-1, it is important to distinguish whic emplo ees are "officers" because the Charter provisions that apply to offi ers a more restrictive than Section 15-1 which applies to all "employees," who may or ay not also be "officers." If a person is both an employee and an o icer, t e more restrictive provisions apply. The Legal Department has opined that Section 15-1 does not app~y to comunity property interests at the subcontract level. However, an empl yee m y be in K:\ETHICS\RDC3116A PAGE 20 ~ 25