Missouri Code of State Regulations › Title 11 - DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY › Division 45 - Missouri Gaming Commission › Chapter 1 - Organization and Administration › Section 11 CSR 45-1.015 - Code of Ethics

Current through Register Vol. 49, No. 14, July 15, 2024
PURPOSE: This amendment removes unnecessary
				  language.
(1) Standard of
				Compliance for Commission and its Employees. Each member of the commission and
				all of its employees are directed to read and comply with this Code of Ethics
				and with Executive Order 92-04 dated January 31, 1992. For the purposes of this
				Code of Ethics, the term employee shall include all direct employees of the
				commission as well as all persons who are employed by entities which have
				contracted with the commission to perform investigations or have entered into a
				Memorandum of Understanding with the commission where specific mention is made
				of this Code of Ethics. The commission shall be responsible for the enforcement
				of applicable statutes, the provisions of the Executive Order, and this rule by
				the suspension or discharge of the employee or other disciplinary action as the
				commission deems appropriate. The definitions at
				11 CSR
				45-5.056(1)(H) and (K) shall be
				applicable to this Code of Ethics.
(2) Prohibition of Gratuities From Persons
				Subject to Commission Regulation. All members of the commission and commission
				employees are prohibited from accepting a gift from any holder of or applicant
				for a license issued by the commission or any representative or agent of such
				license holder or applicant.
(3)
				Recommendations for Employment Prohibited. Every commissioner and every person
				employed by the commission or appointed to a commission committee, is forbidden
				and prohibited to solicit, suggest, request or recommend to any holder of or
				applicant for a license issued by the commission or any representative or agent
				of such license holder or applicant the appointment of any person to any
				office, place, position or employment.
(4) Stock Ownership and Non-Fair Market Value
				Contracts Prohibited. No commissioner or any employee of the commission, while
				in office or employed by the commission, or during the first two (2) years
				after termination of office or employment, may own any stock or other ownership
				interest in any holder of or applicant for a license issued by the commission
				or enter into any contractual relationship with any holder of or applicant for
				a license issued by the commission or any representative or agent of such
				license holder or applicant in which the commissioner or commission employee
				receives consideration that is above fair market value.
(5) Prohibited Relationships. No person who
				is related to a member or employee of the commission within the second degree
				of consanguinity or affinity shall possess any type of license issued by the
				commission.
(6) Compensation. No
				member or employee of the commission shall solicit any thing of value, nor
				shall any member or employee of the commission accept any thing of value, in
				addition to that compensation received from Missouri in their official
				capacity, intended to influence the member or employee's official duties or in
				exchange for having exercised the member's or employee's official powers or
				performed the member's or employee's official duties in a particular manner.
				For the purposes of this section, grant or payment of a thing of value to
				another person on behalf of the member or employee shall be considered grant or
				payment to the member or employee and an offer of an employment opportunity to
				any person shall constitute a thing of value. Nothing in this section shall
				preclude the acceptance of any award, presentation, honor or memorabilia
				presented to the member or employee of the commission in recognition of his/her
				performance in his/her official capacity and not designed to influence any
				particular action taken by the member or employee of the commission.
(7) Gambling Prohibited at Certain
				Properties. No member or employee of the commission shall participate in any
				gaming at any location which is owned or operated by a licensee of the
				commission, a license applicant, or under the jurisdiction of the
				commission.
(8) Confidentiality. No
				information furnished to the commission by a corporation, organization or
				person, except such matters as are specifically required to be open to public
				inspection by the provisions of Chapter 313 and Chapter 610, RSMo, shall be
				open to public inspection or made public except on order of the
				commission.
(9)
Ex
				Parte
Contacts. No commissioner shall knowingly have
ex
				parte
conversations related to matters under the jurisdiction of the
				commission with any applicant or licensee, their representatives, or any party
				to a matter pending before the commission. As
ex parte
communications, either oral or written, may occur inadvertently, any member of
				the commission who receives such a communication, shall immediately prepare a
				written report concerning the communication and submit it to the chairman and
				each member of the commission. The report shall identify the per-son(s) who
				participated in the
ex parte
communication; the circumstances
				which resulted in the communication; the substance of the communication; and
				the relationship of the communication to a particular matter at issue before
				the commission.
(10) Confidential Information. No member or employee
				of the commission shall use or disclose confidential information gained in the
				course of or by reason of the member's or employee's official position or
				activities to further the member's or employee's own financial or political
				interests or the financial or political interests of anyone else.
(11)
				Confidential Information. A former member of the commission having information
				that s/he knows is confidential governmental information or knew was
				confidential government information at the time the member or employee acquired
				the information about a person or matter subject to the jurisdiction of the
				commission while the member or employee was associated with the commission, may
				not disclose such information without the consent of the commission granted
				prior to such disclosure and after complete disclosure to the commission of the
				information sought to be disclosed, all persons to whom the information is to
				be disclosed, and the reasons for such disclosure. Confidential information
				means information that has been obtained under governmental authority and
				which, at the time this rule is applied, the government or the Missouri Gaming
				Commission is prohibited by law from disclosing to the public or has a legal
				privilege not to disclose, and which is not otherwise available to the public.
*Original authority: 313.004.4, RSMo 1993, amended
					 1994.