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(2) Accepting, receiving, or soliciting compensation or other consideration for the performance of the officer's or employee's official duties or responsibilities except as provided by law. (3) Using County time, equipment or other facilities for private business or campaign purposes. (4) Soliciting, selling, or otherwise engaging in a substantial financial transaction with a subordinate or a person or business whom the officer or employee inspects or supervises in the officer's or employee's official capacity. (5) Using County property or personnel for other than a public activity or purpose. (c) No officer or employee, or any business in which an officer or employee or a parent, spouse, sibling, child, stepchild, or household member of an officer or employee has a controlling interest, shall contract for goods or services with any County agency. The following exemptions shall apply to this subsection: (1) Any contract for goods or services with a value not exceeding $50,000 that is contracted for by a County agency other than that agency to which the officer or employee is assigned, provided that the mayor, managing director, and deputy managing director shall be prohibited from contracting with any County agency regardless of the contract value; and (2) Any contract relating to special duty to be performed by a police officer. [(c-)](d) Nothing herein shall be construed to prohibit an officer from introducing bills and resolutions, serving on committees or from making statements or taking action in the exercise of the officer's legislative functions. Every officer shall file a full and complete public disclosure of the nature and extent of the interest or transaction which the officer believes may be affected by legislative action." SECTION 4. Chapter 2, article 15, section 2-84 of the Hawai`i County Code 1983 (2005 Edition, as amended), is amended to read as follows: "Section 2-84. Conflicts of interests. (a) No officer or employee shall take any official action directly affecting: (1) A business or other undertaking in which that officer or employee has a substantial financial interest; (2) A private undertaking in which the officer or employee is engaged as legal counsel, advisor, consultant, or representative, or other agency capacity; or (3) A business or undertaking in which the employee knows or has reason to know that a brother, a sister, a parent, an emancipated child, or a household member has a substantial financial interest, provided that the financial interests of these individuals shall not include those of any spouse or child. A department head who is unable to be disqualified on any matter described in items (1), (2) and (3) above will not be in violation of this subsection if the department head has complied with the disclosure requirements of section 2-91.1. A person whose position on a board, commission, or committee is mandated by statute, charter, code or resolution to have particular qualifications shall only be