Office of the City Clerk - Record #: SO2012-8082

• Record #: SO2012-8082
• Type: Ordinance
• Status: Passed
• Intro date: 11/15/2012
• Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Committees, Rules and Ethics
• Final action: 2/13/2013
• Title: Amendment of Municipal Code Chapter 2-156 regarding ethics
• Sponsors: Emanuel, Rahm, Burns, William D.
• Topic: MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 2 - City Government & Administration - Ch. 55 Complaints against Alderman and City Council Employees, MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 2 - City Government & Administration - Ch. 56 Office of Inspector General, MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 2 - City Government & Administration - Ch. 156 Governmental Ethics

Date	Journal Page Number	Action By	Action	Result
2/19/2013		Office of the Mayor	Signed by Mayor
2/13/2013		City Council	Passed as Substitute	Pass
2/11/2013		Committee on Committees, Rules and Ethics	Recommended to Pass
11/15/2012	39844	City Council	Referred

Chicago, February 13 , 2013
To the President and Members of the City Council:
Your Committee on Committees, Rules and Ethics, having under consideration an Ordinance introduced by Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Alderman William D. Burns (which was introduced on November 15, 2012) amending:

Chapter 2-156 of the Municipal Code of Chicago is hereby amended by adding new sections 2-156-385, 2-156-392, 2-156-396, 2-156-402, 2-156-505 and 2-156-530, by deleting the language struck through and by inserting the language underscored, as follows within the attached substitute.



begs leave to recommend'that Your Honorable Body pass the Ordinance which is transmitted herewith.

Alderman Richard F. Mell Chairman,
Committee on Committees, Rules and Ethics
This recommendation was concurred in by a viva voce vote of the members of the Committee on February 13, 2013.
SUBSTITUTE ORDINANCE


BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:

SECTION 1. Chapter 2-156 of the Municipal Code of Chicago is hereby amended by adding new sections 2-156-385, 2-156-392, 2-156-396, 2-156-402, 2-156-505 and 2-156-530, by deleting the language struck through and by inserting the language underscored, as follows:
2-156-010 Definitions.
(Omitted text is not affected by this ordinance) (d) "City" means the City of Chicago.
(d-1) "City council employee" has the meaning ascribed to the term in Section 2-55-
010.

(Omitted text is not affected by this ordinance)

(f) "Compensation" means money, thing of value or other pecuniary benefit received or to be received in return for, or as reimbursement for, services rendered or to be rendered.
(f-1) "Confidential information" means any information that is exempt from disclosure under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act, codified at 5 ILCS 140/1, et seq.

(Omitted text is not affected by this ordinance)

(m) "Gift" means any thing of value given without fair-market-value consideration.
(m-1) "Hearing officer" means an administrative law office...