2013 Idaho Statutes
Title 59 - PUBLIC OFFICERS IN GENERAL
Chapter 7 - ETHICS IN GOVERNMENT
Section 59-703 - DEFINITIONS.
(1) "Official action" means any decision on, or proposal, consideration, enactment, defeat, or making of any rule, regulation, rate-making proceeding or policy action or nonaction by a governmental body or any other policy matter which is within the official jurisdiction of the governmental body.
(2) "Business" means any undertaking operated for economic gain, including, but not limited to, a corporation, partnership, trust, proprietorship, firm, association or joint venture.
(3) "Business with which a public official is associated" means any business of which the public official or member of his household is a director, officer, owner, partner, employee or holder of stock over five thousand dollars ($5,000) or more at fair market value.
(4) "Conflict of interest" means any official action or any decision or recommendation by a person acting in a capacity as a public official, the effect of which would be to the private pecuniary benefit of the person or a member of the person's household, or a business with which the person or a member of the person's household is associated, unless the pecuniary benefit arises out of the following:
(5) "Economic gain" means increase in pecuniary value from sources other than lawful compensation as a public official.
(6) "Governmental entity" means:
(7) "Members of a household" means the spouse and dependent children of the public official and/or persons whom the public official is legally obligated to support.
(8) "Person" means an individual, proprietorship, partnership, association, trust, estate, business trust, group or corporation, whether operated for profit or not, and any other legal entity, or agent or servant thereof, or a governmental entity.
(9) "Public office" means any position in which the normal and usual duties are conducted on behalf of a governmental entity.
(10) "Public official" means any person holding public office in the following capacity:
History:
[59-703, added 1990, ch. 329, sec. 2, p. 904; am. 1999, ch. 145, sec. 1, p. 415.]
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