§ 32-2. Definitions.

As used in this chapter, the following words shall have the following meanings:

BUSINESS ENTITY

Any business, proprietorship, firm, partnership, person in representative or fiduciary capacity, association, venture, trust or corporation.

COMPLAINANT

Any person who files a complaint pursuant to § 32-11G of this chapter. After a finding of probable cause, the Board of Ethics shall become the complainant.

EMPLOYEE

Any person receiving a salary or wages from the Town or Board of Education for services rendered, whether full-time or part-time.

INTEREST

Direct or indirect pecuniary or material benefit accruing to a public official or employee as result of a contract or transaction which is or may be the subject of an official act or action by or with the Town, except for such contracts or transactions which by their terms and by the substance of their provisions confer the opportunity and right to realize the accrual of similar benefits to all other persons and/or property similarly situated. For the purposes of this chapter, a public official or employee shall be deemed to have an interest in the affairs of:

A. 

Any person related to him by blood or marriage in a degree closer than the fourth degree of consanguinity or affinity (determined by the civil law method);

B. 

Any person or business entity with whom a contractual relationship exists with the public official or employee or member of his or her immediate family;

C. 

Any business entity in which the public official or employee is an officer, director or member having a financial interest in or employed by;

D. 

Any business entity in which the stock of, or legal or beneficial ownership of, in excess of 5% of the total stock or total legal and beneficial ownership, is controlled or owned directly or indirectly by the public official or employee.

OFFICIAL ACT OR ACTION

Any legislative, administrative, appointive or discretionary act of any public official or employee of the Town or any agency, board, committee or commission thereof.

POLITICAL PARTY TOWN COMMITTEE OFFICER

The chairman, vice chairman, treasurer or secretary (or comparable titles) of any organized political party Town committee.

PUBLIC OFFICIAL

Any person holding elective or appointive office in the government of the Town, and shall include, but not be limited to, the Town Treasurer, the Town Attorney, members and alternate members, if any, of the Town Council, the Board of Education, the Board of Fire Commissioners, the Town Plan and Zoning Commission, the Zoning Board of Appeals, committees appointed to oversee the construction or improvement of Town facilities, or any other board, commission or agency.

RESPONDENT

Any public official or employee against whom a complaint has been filed pursuant to § 32-11G of this chapter.

Amended 10-23-1991; 10-28-1997 by Ord. No. 9597-13