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Ordinance amending and supplementing the Pittsburgh Code of Ordinances, Title I: Administrative, Article XI: Human Resources, Chapter 197: Code of Conduct, ? 197.07: Offering, Soliciting, or Accepting Gifts to define procedures for the presentation of gifts to public officials by foreign or domestic dignitaries.
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The Council of the City of Pittsburgh hereby enacts as follows:
Section 1. The Code of Ordinances is hereby amended and supplemented at Title I: Administrative, Article XI: Human Resources, Chapter 197, ? 197.07: Offering, Soliciting, or Accepting Gifts
as follows:
(a) General rule on soliciting gifts. A Public Official, Public Employee, or City Employee shall not solicit anything of value from any person or entity that the Public Official, Public Employee, or City Employee knows, or has reason to know, is an Interested Party, subject to the exception in subsection (d)(1), and subsection (i).
(b) General rule on accepting gifts. A Public Official, Public Employee or City Employee shall not accept anything of value from any person or entity that the Public Official, Public Employee or City Employee knows, or has reason to know is an Interested Party, subject to the exceptions in subsection (d).
(c) General rule on offering gifts. No interested party shall offer or give anything of value to a Public Official, Public Employee, or City Employee subject to the exceptions in (d or g).
(d) Exceptions.
(1) Any gift occasioned by an immediate family relationship.
(2) Complimentary food and refreshment of nominal value, not to exceed four (4) times per year from the same organization or individual.
(3) When offered by the sponsoring organization, and attended by the Employee in an official capacity, admission, attendance, food and refreshment at a public event or ceremony sponsored by a non-profit organization, or by a civic, political, community, sports or cultural organization. This exception is limited to two (2) tickets per employe...
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