2014 Kentucky Revised Statutes CHAPTER 45A - KENTUCKY MODEL PROCUREMENT CODE 45A.455 Conflict of interest -- Gratuities and kickbacks -- Use of confidential information.
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45A.455 Conflict of interest -- Gratuities and kickbacks -- Use of confidential
information.
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It shall be a breach of ethical standards for any employee with procurement
authority to participate directly in any proceeding or application; request for
ruling or other determination; claim or controversy; or other particular matter
pertaining to any contract, or subcontract, and any solicitation or proposal
therefor, in which to his knowledge:
(a) He, or any member of his immediate family has a financial interest
therein; or
(b) A business or organization in which he or any member of his immediate
family has a financial interest as an officer, director, trustee, partner, or
employee, is a party; or
(c) Any other person, business, or organization with whom he or any
member of his immediate family is negotiating or has an arrangement
concerning prospective employment is a party. Direct or indirect
participation shall include but not be limited to involvement through
decision, approval, disapproval, recommendation, preparation of any part
of a purchase request, influencing the content of any specification or
purchase standard, rendering of advice, investigation, auditing, or in any
other advisory capacity.
It shall be a breach of ethical standards for any person to offer, give, or agree
to give any employee or former employee, or for any employee or former
employee to solicit, demand, accept, or agree to accept from another person, a
gratuity or an offer of employment, in connection with any decision, approval,
disapproval, recommendation, preparation of any part of a purchase request,
influencing the content of any specification or purchase standard, rendering of
advice, investigation, auditing, or in any other advisory capacity in any
proceeding or application, request for ruling or other determination, claim or
controversy, or other particular matter, pertaining to any contract or subcontract
and any solicitation or proposal therefor.
It is a breach of ethical standards for any payment, gratuity, or offer of
employment to be made by or on behalf of a subcontractor under a contract to
the prime contractor or higher tier subcontractor or any person associated
therewith, as an inducement for the award of a subcontract or order.
The prohibition against conflicts of interest and gratuities and kickbacks shall
be conspicuously set forth in every local public agency written contract and
solicitation therefor.
It shall be a breach of ethical standards for any public employee or former
employee knowingly to use confidential information for his actual or anticipated
personal gain, or the actual or anticipated personal gain of any other person.
Effective:April 9, 1980
History: Amended 1980 Ky. Acts ch. 250, sec. 16, effective April 9, 1980. -Created 1978 Ky. Acts ch. 110, sec. 92, effective January 1, 1980.
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