Ethics Guide - Laserfiche WebLink

Home

FM AN ETHICS CHECKLIST This is intended as a brief checklist that you can refer to when you are considering a proposed action, activity, outside employment, or are given a gift. This checklist is substantially similar to one published by the State Ethics Commission. 1. Gifts: Do not accept or solicit gifts unless you are sure of the application of the gifts section of the Hawaii County Ethics Code, Section 2 -91.4 No officer or employee shall solicit, accept, or receive, directly or indirectly, any gift, whether in the form of money, service, loan, travel, entertainment, hospitality, thing, or promise or in any other form, under circumstances in which it be reasonably be inferred that the gift is intended to influence the officer or employee in the performance of the officer's or employee's official duties or is intended as a reward for any official action on the officer's or employee's part. 2. Gifts Disclosure: If you receive more than $100 of legally acceptable gifts from a single source between June 1 of one year and May 31 of the following year, check with your office as to whether you need to file a gifts disclosure form. 3. Confidential Information: Do not disclose or use confidential information for your, or anyone's, personal benefit. 4. Favoritism; Fair Treatment: Do not use, or attempt to use, your official position to give yourself or anyone any preferential treatment or any unwarranted advantage. 5. Supplemental Compensation: Do not accept extra pay or anything of value in conjunction with the performance of your official duties, unless provided for by law. 6. County Resources: Do not use County time, equipment (computers, email, etc.), facilities, personnel, the County seal, office supplies or other County resources for non - County related purposes or political campaigning. 7. Financial Transactions with Subordinates: Do not engage in substantial financial transactions with subordinates, or persons or businesses you inspect or supervise. Check with your office as to the meaning of "substantial," as the application of that term may be different depending on the circumstances. 8. Conflicts of Interest: Do not take official action if the action affects your financial interests, or a business or undertaking in which you have a financial interest, unless you are sure of the application of the Hawaii County Ethics Code. The financial interests of a spouse or dependent child are treated the same as your financial interests. Also, do not take action affecting an undertaking in which you, in your private capacity, represent a person or business. 8