Section 100.370 – Commissioners or employees of authority, voluntary interest in project prohibited — disclosure of involuntary interest required and participation in action of authority forbidden — violation is misconduct, office forfeited.

Effective – 28 Aug 1967

100.370. Commissioners or employees of authority, voluntary interest in project prohibited — disclosure of involuntary interest required and participation in action of authority forbidden — violation is misconduct, office forfeited. — 1. No commissioner or employee of an authority shall voluntarily acquire any interest, direct or indirect, in any project or in any property included or planned by the authority to be included in any such project, or in any contract or proposed contract in connection with any such project.

2. Where the acquisition is not voluntary such commissioner or employee shall immediately disclose such interest in writing to the authority and such disclosure shall be entered upon the minutes of the authority.

3. A commissioner or employee who owns or controls any interest, direct or indirect, in such property shall not participate in any action by the authority affecting the property. If any commissioner or employee of the authority owned or controlled within the preceding two years any interest direct or indirect, in any property included or planned by the authority to be included in any project, he immediately shall disclose such interest in writing to the authority and such disclosure shall be entered upon the minutes of the authority. Upon such disclosure such commissioner or employee shall not participate in any action by the authority affecting such property.

4. Any violation of the provisions of sections of this law shall constitute misconduct in office; and the commissioner shall forfeit forthwith his office.

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(L. 1967 p. 172 § 8)