SUBSTITUTE ORDINANDI"
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:
SECTION 1. Section 2-156-018 of the Municipal Code of Chicago is hereby amended by deleting the language struck through and inserting the language underscored, as follows:
2-156-018 Duty to report corrupt or unlawful activity.
(a) Every city employee or official shall report, directly and without undue delay,
to the oity'6 Inspector Gonoral or Logiolotivo Incpector General appropriate investigating
authority any and all information concerning conduct which such employee or official
knows or should reasonably know to involve corrupt or other unlawful activity (i) by
another city employee or official which concerns such employee's or official's
employment or office; or (ii) by any person dealing with the city which concerns the
person's dealings with the city. Any employee or official who knowingly fails to report a
corrupt or unlawful activity as required in this section shall be subject to employment
sanctions, including discharge, in accordance with procedures under which the
employee may otherwise be disciplined.
(b) Every city contractor shall report, directly and without undue detav. to the
city's inspector general any and all information concerning conduct by any person which
such contractor knows to involve corrupt activity. A city contractor's knowing failure to
report corrupt activity as required in this subsection (b) shall constitute an event of
default under the contract. For purposes of this subsection (b), "corrupt activity" shall
mean anv conduct set forth in Subparagraph (a)d), (2) or (3) of Section 1-23-020 of this
Code. The standard for knowledge applied to the terms "knows" and 'knowing" in this
subsection (b) shall be the same standard applied to the terms "knowing" and
"knowingly" in Section 1-22-010 of this Code.
(cj For purposes of this section, a report made to the appropriate investigating authority's the Inopeotor General's or the Legislative Inopeotor Gonorol'...
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