ORDINANCE
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHICAGO
Section 1: Section 2-156-030 is hereby amended by adding the language underscored, and by deleting the language struck through, as follows:
2-156-030. Improper influence.
No official employee shall make, participate in making or in any way attempt to use his or her position to influence any city governmental decision or action in which he or she knows or has reason to know that he or she has any financial interest distinguishable from its effect on the public generally^or 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.
No elected official, his or her spouse or domestic partner and any immediate family member living with the Mayor, City Clerk, City Treasurer or member of the Citv Council or any person acting at the direction of such official, shall contact either orally or in writing any other city official or employee with respect to any matter involving any person with whom the elected official has any business relationship that creates a financial interest on the part of the official, or the domestic partner or spouse of the official, or from whom or which he or she has derived any income or compensation during the preceding twelve months or from whom or which he or she reasonably expects to derive any income or compensation in the following twelve months. In addition, no elected official may preside over or participate in any discussion in any City Council Committee hearing, or participate in any discussion in any city council meeting or vote on any matter involving the person with whom the elected official has any business relationship that creates a financial interest on the part of the official, or the domestic partner or spouse of the official, or from whom or which he or she has derived any income or compensation during the precedi...
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