2023 New York Laws › PBA - Public Authorities › Article 5 - Public Utility Authorities › Title 10-B - Niagara Falls Public Water Authority › 1230-V - Code of Ethics.

§  1230-v.  Code  of  ethics.  1.  As  used  in  this section the term
"employee" shall mean any member, officer,  agent  or  employee  of  the
authority or the water board.
2.  No employee shall have any interest financial or otherwise, direct
or indirect, or engage in any business or  transaction  or  professional
activity  or incur any obligation of any nature, which is in substantial
conflict with the proper discharge of his or her duties  in  the  public
interest.
3. Standards for such code of ethics shall be as follows:
(a) No employee shall accept other employment which will impair his or
her  independence  of  judgment  in  the exercise of his or her official
duties.
(b) No employee shall accept employment or engage in any  business  or
professional  activity  which  will  require  the  employee  to disclose
confidential information which he or she has gained by reason of his  or
her official position or authority.
(c)  No  employee  shall disclose confidential information acquired by
the employee in the course of his or her official duties  nor  use  such
information to further his or her personal interests.
(d)  No  employee  shall  use  or  attempt  to use his or her official
position to secure unwarranted privileges or exemptions for  himself  or
herself or others.
(e)  No  employee shall engage in any transaction as representative or
agent of the authority or water board with any person or business entity
in which he or she has a direct  or  indirect  financial  interest  that
might  reasonably  tend  to conflict with the proper discharge of his or
her official duties.
(f) An employee shall not by his or her conduct give reasonable  basis
for  the  impression  that  any  person  can  improperly  influence such
employee or unduly enjoy his or her favor in the performance of  his  or
her official duties, or that he or she is affected by the kinship, rank,
position or influence of any party or person.
(g)  An  employee  shall  abstain  from making personal investments in
enterprises which he or she  has  reason  to  believe  may  be  directly
involved in decisions to be made by the employee or which will otherwise
create  substantial  conflict  between  his  or  her  duty in the public
interest and his or her private interest.
(h) An employee shall endeavor to pursue a  course  of  conduct  which
will not raise suspicion among the public that he or she is likely to be
engaged in acts that are in violation of his or her trust.
(i)  No employee employed on a full-time basis nor any person, firm or
association of which such an employee is a  member,  nor  corporation  a
substantial  portion  of  the  stock  of  which  is  owned or controlled
directly or indirectly by such employee, shall sell goods or services to
any person, firm, corporation or association which is licensed or  whose
rates  are  fixed by the water board in which such employee serves or is
employed.
(j) If any  employee  shall  have  a  financial  interest,  direct  or
indirect,  having  a  value  of  ten  thousand  dollars  or more, in any
activity which is subject to the jurisdiction of a regulatory agency, he
or she shall file with the secretary of state and secretary of the water
board a written statement that he or she has such a  financial  interest
in such activity which statement shall be open to public inspection.
4. In addition to any penalty contained in any other provision of law,
any  such  employee who shall knowingly and intentionally violate any of
the provisions of this section may be fined, suspended or  removed  from
office or employment in accordance with the rules and regulations of the
water  board.  It  shall be a misdemeanor for any such employee to be in

any way or manner interested, directly or indirectly, in the  furnishing
of  work,  materials,  supplies or labor, in any contract therefor which
the authority or the water board is empowered to make by this title.