Record #: SO2017-7797   
Type: Ordinance Status: Passed
Intro date: 11/8/2017 Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on Workforce Development and Audit
Final action: 12/13/2017
Title: Amendment of Municipal Code Section 2-156-145 requiring all city employees, members of boards or commissions and not-for-profit organization created by city to complete sexual harassment training course
Sponsors: Laurino, Margaret, O'Connor, Patrick, Zalewski, Michael R., Smith, Michele, Willie B. Cochran, Hairston, Leslie A., Valencia, Anna M.
Topic: MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 2 - City Government & Administration - Ch. 156 Governmental Ethics
Attachments: 1. SO2017-7797.pdf, 2. O2017-7797.pdf
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ORDINANCE BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO:


SECTION 1. Section 2-156-145 ofthe Chicago Municipal Code is hereby amended by deleting the language stricken and inserting the language underscored, as follows:
2-156-145 Ethics and sexual harassment education.
(1) Except as otherwise provided in subsection (a)(2), each official, member of an alderman's personal staff, city council committee staff member and each person holding a senior executive service position with the city (all positions listed in Appendix A to Chapter 2-74 of the code) shall attend an ethics education seminar offered by the board of ethics within 120 days of becoming an official, member of an alderman's personal staff, city council committee staff member or holding a senior executive service position with the city; and every four years thereafter.
(2) Each city employee and official not covered in subsection (a)(1) shall complete
an ethics training program in a manner specified and offered by the board of ethics within 60
days of employment with the city or becoming a city official.
(3) The seminar offered in accordance with this subsection (a) shall educate
persons required to take the seminar as to their duties and responsibilities under this chapter.
In addition to the requirement of subsection (a), each official, member of an alderman's personal staff, city council committee employee, full-time, part- time and contract employee of the city, and employee of any not-for-profit organization created by a city ordinance to perform functions traditionally within the power of the city^ including raising revenue for municipal functions, shall in each calendar year complete an annual ethics education training course developed by the board of ethics. Such course may be offered in-person, through an internet based program, or other manner prescribed by the board of ethics. Any employee who fails to comply with this section shall be subje...

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