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Resolution No. 8��)3 Section 5. Handlin� �llleeed Violations of Code of Ethics. E�i1��C 1 A. An Ethics Commission is hereby established. The Commission shall be composed of three individuals. two of whom shall be residents of the City and the third sha11 be a nonresident. Initial appointments sha11 be for terms of one. t�i•o, and three years respectively. Thereafter. appointments shall be for three year terms. The City Council sha11 appoint a chairperson and secretary from the Commission membership. Allegations of violations of this code against public officials. except employees ��ho are subordinate to the City Manager. shall be referred to the Ethics Commission for investigation. Allegations which may constitute a violation of a federal. state. or local statute sha11 be referred to the appropriate criminal authority. Results of the investigation ot�the Ethics Commission shall be reported to the City Council along with the Commission's recommendation for disposition. Thereafter. the City Council shall take appropriate action which ma�� include censure ol a Council Member. discipline o�� City Manager. or no action. The Commission shall conduct an organizational meeting during January or each �'�;ac, and thereafter meet only at the request of the City Council or City Manager. B. Allegations against public officials who are subordinate to the City Manager including the Fire Chief and Assistant Fire Chief. sha11 be handled by the City Manager. The City Manager may take appropriate disciplinary action against employees violating this code. Section 6. Disclosure of Financial Interests. Not later than ninety (90) days after the date of approval of this code. each public official of the City shall file as a public record, in the oftice of the City Manager. a statement containing the following: A list naming all business enterprises known by the public official to be licensed by or to be doing business with the City in which the public official or any member of the public official's immediate family is connected as an employee. officer. owner. investor. creditor of. director. trustee, partner. advisor. or consultant: and ?. A list of the public officials and members of the public officials' immediate family's interests in real properiy located in the City or which may be competing with the interests of the City- located elsewhere. other than property occupied as a personal residence. Each person who enters upon duty after the date of this code in an office or position as to �,1-hich a statement is required by this code shall fi(e such a statement on forms to be provided by the Cit�� not less than thiriy (30) days after the date of his,'lter entrance on duty-. �