2006 Alabama Code - Section 11-44-94 — Conflicts of interest of municipal officers and employees.
No officer or employee elected or appointed in any such city or town shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract for work or material or the profits thereof or services to be furnished or performed for the city or town, and no such officer or employee shall be interested, directly or indirectly, in any contract for work or materials or the profits thereof or services to be furnished or performed for any person, firm or corporation operating an interurban railway, street railway, gas works, electric light or power plant, heating plant, telegraph line or telephone exchange within the territorial limits of said city.
No such commissioner or other official of such city or town shall be interested in or be an employee temporarily, professionally or otherwise, of any person, partnership, corporation or association operating any public service utility within said city or town.
No such officer or employee shall accept or receive, directly or indirectly, from any person, firm or corporation operating within the territorial limits of said city or town any interurban railway, railway, street railway, gas works, waterworks, electric light or power plant, heating plant, telegraph line or telephone exchange or other business using or operating under a public franchise, any frank, free pass, free ticket or free service or accept or receive, directly or indirectly, from any such person, firm or corporation any gift or other thing of value, or any service upon terms more favorable than are granted to the public generally. Every such contract or agreement shall be void. Such prohibition of free transportation shall not apply to policemen or firemen in uniform nor to policemen in the discharge of their duty, nor shall any free service to city or town officials heretofore provided by any franchise or ordinance be affected by this section.
Any violation of the provisions of this section shall be a misdemeanor; and, upon conviction thereof, the guilty person shall be punished by a fine of not less than $100.00 nor more than $500.00, and may be imprisoned in the county jail for not more than 90 days and shall also be removed from office.
(Acts 1911, No. 281, p. 330; Code 1940, T. 37, §108.)
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