1978-147 s
'- Bill 1978-14
Transitory Ordinance P:o. I6.48
CF?ARTER Ar~:[ENDn1ENT
ORDINANCE NO. 4~
APd ORDINANCE A!~IENDING THE CITY
CHARTER OF THE CITY OE RICHFIELD
CITY Or RICHFIELD DOES ORDAIN:
The City Charter of the City of Richfield, adopted
November 3, 1964, as subsequently amended, is hereby
amended in the follo~r;ing respects:
(1) Section 12.03 thereof, entitled "City Officers
not to be Interested in Contracts" is hereby deleted.
(2) Chapter 12, entitled "A:[i_scellaneous and Transitory
Provisions" is hereby renumbered Chapter 13. Sections 12.01,
12.02, 12.04, 12.05, 12.06, 12.07, 12.08, 12.09, 12.10, 12.11,
12.12 and 12.13 are hereby renumbered 13.01, 13.02, 13.03, 13.04,
13.05, 13.OE, 13.07, 13.08, 13.09, 13.10, 13.11 and 13.12
respectively.
(3) A new Chapter 12 shall be added to the City Charter,
after Chapter 11 thereof, providing as follows:
"CHARTER 1l
Code of Ethics
Sec. 12.01. The term 'public official' shall include all
elected officials, the city manager, and all members of_ boards
or commissions, as are authorized under this Charter.
Sec. 12.02. No public official shall misuse such position to
secure special privileges or exemptions for such person or_ any
other person.
Sec. 12.03. No public official shall directly or indirectly
receive or agree to receive, any compensation, gift, reward or
gratuity in payment for the performance of his or her official
duties except as may be provided by law.
Sec. 12.04. No public official shall enter into any contract
with the City which is prohibited by law. Any public official who
has a proprietary interest in an entity doing business with the
City shall make }:no~,an that interest in writing to the City Council
and the City C1_erk.
Sec. 12.05. Any public official who in the discharge of
said official`s duties would k~e required to take an action or make
a decision which would substantially a:Efect such official's
financial interests or those of a business with ~ti~hich such official
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is associated, unless the effect on such official
is no greater than on any other citizens or other members of
such official's business classification, profession, or
occupation, shall take the following actions:
a. A written statement shall be prepared which will
include the name, address, office held, action
presenting the potential conflict of interest, the
nature of the financial interest, the person notified
of the potential conflici of interest, the official's
signature and the date;
b. Said person shall deliver copies of the state?~ent
to the City Clerk and to the official's immediate
superior, if any;
c. if a potential conflict presents itself and
there is insufficient time to comply with the provisions
of clauses "a" and "b" of this section the public
official shall verbally inform the City Clerk and the
official's superior of the potential conflict. The
official1 shall-then file a written statement with the
City Clerk within one week after the potential conflict
presents itself which statement shall state the reason
for the delay.
Sec. 12.06. Any intentional failure to file such statement
or any intentional filing of a false written or verbal statement
or any intentional omission of any required information in any
required statement shall be unlawful and shall be referred by
the City Clerk or the public official's immediate superior
to the City Attorney for appropriate action."
Passed by the City Council of the City of Richfield,
I~Zinnesota, this 24th day c r
ATTEST:
Thomas Ivioran, City Clerk
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` SUN NEWSPAPERS
AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION
RICHFIELD SUN
6601 W. 78th St. Bloomington, Minnesota
State of Minnesota
ss.
County of Hennepin
J. R. RITCHAY, beix)g duly sworn, on oath says he is and during all times here stated has
been the vice president and printer of the newspaper known as The Richfield Sun and
leas full knowledge of the facts herein stated as follows: (1) Said newspaper is printed in the
English language in newspaper fgrmat and in column and sheet form equivalent in printed
space to at least 900 square inches. (2) Said newspaper is a weekly and is distributed at least
once each week. (3) Said newspaper has 50% of its news columns devoted to news of local
interest to the community which it purports to serve and does not wholly duplicate any other
publication and is not made up entirely of patents, plate matter and advertisements. (4) Said
newspaper is circulated in and near the municipality which it purports to serve, has at least
500 copies regularly delivered to paying subscribers, has an average of at least 75°Jo of its total
circulation currently paid or no more than three montgs in arrears and has entry as second-class
rnatter in its local post-office. (5) Said newspaper purports to serve the City of Richfield
in the County of Hennepin and it has its known office of issue in the City of Bloomington in
said county, established and open during its regular business hours for the gathering of news,
sale of advertisements and sale of subscriptions and maintained by the managing officer of said
newspaper or persons in its emplpy and subject to his direction and control during all such
regular business hours and devoted exclusively during such regular business hours aid at
which said newspaper is printed. {6) Said newspaper files a copy of each issue immediately
with the State Historical Society. (7) Said newspaper is made available at single or subscription
prices to anv person, corporation, partnership or other unincorporated association requesting
the newspaper and making the applicable payment. (8) Said newspaper has complied with all
foregoing conditions for at least one year preceding the day or dates of publication mentioned
below. (9) Said newspaper has filed with the Secretary of State of Minnesota prior to January
1, 1966 and each January 1 thereafter an affidavit in the form prescribed by the Secretary of
State and signed by the managing officer of said newspaper and sworn to before a notary
public stating that the newspaper is a legal newspaper.
He further states on oath that the printed Transitory Ord ina nG e No . 1 6 . L
hereto attached as a part hereof was cut from the columns of said newspaper, and was printed
and published therein fn the English language, once each week, for 011e successive weeks;
that it was first so published on Wed the 2 day of AU ~U S t 19~
and was thereafter printed and published on
and including
the day of 19~ and that the following is a printed copy
of the lower case alphabet from A to Z, both inclusive, and is hereby acknowledged as being
the size and kind of type used in the composition and publication of said notice, to-wit:
aacdefghijklmnopgrstuvwxyz
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Subscribed and sworn to before me this 2 day of AU gU S t ~ 19~
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(Official Publication)
LEGAL NOTICE
TRANSISTORY ORDINANCE NO.
16.98 .,
CHARTER AME
ORDINANCE'.
AN OR
THE~~ro
CITY 06;.~~~FIELD'
CITY OF RICHFIELD DOES OR-
DAIN:
The City Charter of the City of
Richfield, adopted November 3, 1964.
as subsequently amended. is hereby
amended in the following respects:
(1~ Section 12.03 thereof. entitled
"City Officers not to be Interested in
Contracts" is hereby deleted.
t21 Chapter 12. entitled "Miscel-
laneous and Transitory Provisions"
is hereby renumbered Chapter 13.
Sections 12.01. 12.02, 12.04. 12.05, 12.06.
12.07, 12.08., 12.09. 12.10, 12.11, 12.12.
and 12.13 are hereby renumbered
13.01,. 13.02, 13.03. 13.04. 13.05, 13.06,
13.07, 13.08. 13.09. 13.10, 13.11 and 13.12
respectively.
i 3) A new Chapter 12 shall be added -
to the City Charter. after Chapter li
thereof. providing as follows:
"'CHAPTER 12
Code of Ethics
Sect. 12.01. The term 'public offi-
cial' shall include all elected officials:'
the city manager, and all members of
boards of commissions. as are au-
thorized under this charter.
Sec. 12.02. No public official shall
misuse such position to secure special
privileges or exemptions for such
person or any other person.
Sec. 12.03. No public official shall
directly or indirectly receive or agree
to receive, any compensation. gift.
reward or gratuity in payment for the
performance of his or her official
duties except as may be provided by
law.
Sec. 12.04. No public ot't'icial shall
enter into any contracts. with the City
which is prohibited bylaw. Any public
official who has a proprietary interest
in an entity doing business with the
City shall make known that interest in
writing to the City. Council 'and the
City Clerk.
Sec: 12.05. Any public official who in
the discharge of said official's duties
would be required to take an action or
make a decision which would sub-
, stantially affect such official's finan-
cial interests or those of.a business
with which such ofticial is associated.
unless the effect on such official is no
greater than on any other citizens. or
other members of such.official's bus-
iness classit'ication, profession, or oc-
cupation, shall .take the'follow'ing ac-
tions:
a. A writtenstatemeaC~hall be
prepared which will inC11(de the
name, address, officeaieEd.action
presenting the potential conflict
of interest, the nature of ;the t'i-
nancial interest, the person
notified of the potential copflictrol'
interest. the official's signaRare
and the date;
b, Saifl person shall.de}iaer
copies o thie statetnent.to ttie City
clerk. and to the official's im-
mediate superior. if any;
c. It' a potential conflict pres-
. ents itself an~fthere is iriifficient
time to cdmply'with the provi-
sions of clauses "a" and "b" of
this section the;publie ptjficial
shall perballyinform~fhe City
Clerk and the•officiat"s superior
of the potential conflict~,Tbeoffi-
cia~ shall then file a .written
st'atferitent with the Clf}~ C1er`k
w$thi(t one .week after the pgt2n-
tial cgat'lict presents itself w•~tigtr
'sfa~einent shall state ttie"rgaso4
"PoK~thetielay. :- y:.
Sec.,12;06. Any Mf~tio[)al )ai1_v{~ to
the such stdtemen~ or any ipte tional .
tiliri~bfFa`~false wrltten'or ~~al''
state~nentor.apy,interttional~ttlsSiwt
of any regWW,,rg~ in~p 4A fry x
required statem~SY§t~ial'unY ~U~ _
and°shatltD~tie6ea~~te# by:ittd~ity
Clerk or the,piyblic offici 1's;im-
mediate superior to'the City Attorney
for appropriate ~ction:'^ "•~ ;,; ''
Yassed_by_ the_City_Counc~of-the
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