Record #: O2015-128   
Type: Ordinance Status: Failed to Pass
Intro date: 1/21/2015 Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Committees, Rules and Ethics
Final action: 5/20/2015
Title: Amendment of Municipal Code Section 1-156-080 prohibiting aldermanic participation in City Council debate on matters of potential conflict of interest
Sponsors: Fioretti, Bob, Arena, John, Waguespack, Scott
Topic: MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 2 - City Government & Administration - Ch. 156 Governmental Ethics
Attachments: 1. O2015-128.pdf
Related files: R2015-407
ORDINANCE

BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF CHICAGO CITY COUNCIL:

SECTION 1. Chapter 1-156-080 ofthe Municipal Code ofthe City of Chicago is hereby amended by adding new language underlined as follows:

2-156-080 Conflicts of interest; appearance of impropriety.
(a) No official or employee shall make or participate in the making ofany governmental decision with respect to any matter in which he has any financial interest distinguishable from that ofthe general public, or from which he has derived any income or compensation during the preceding twelve months or from which he reasonably expects to derive any income or compensation in the following twelve months.
(b) [1) With regard to any matter pending before the city council or any council committee, any member of the city council who has any financial interest that is either (1) distinguishable from that of the general public or all aldermen, or (2) from which he or she has derived any income or compensation during the preceding twelve months or from which he or she reasonably expects to derive any income or compensation in the following twelve months shall publicly disclose the nature and extent of such interest on the records of proceedings of the city council, and shall also notify the board of ethics of such interest within 96 hours of delivery by the clerk to the member, of the introduction of any ordinance, resolution, order or other matter in the city council, or as soon thereafter as the member is or should be aware ofsuch potential conflict of interest. The board of ethics shall make such disclosures available for public inspection and copying immediately upon receipt. He or she shall abstain from voting on the matter and shall refrain from participating in any manner during any council debate on such matters but shall be counted present for purposes of a quorum. The obligation to report a potential conflict of interest under this subsection arises as soon as the member of the city council is or should be aw...

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