138A-31. Use of public position for private gain. (a) Except as permitted under G.S. 138A-38, a covered person or legislative employee shall not knowingly use the covered person’s or legislative employee’s public position in an official action or legislative action that will result in financial benefit to the covered person or legislative employee, a member […]
138A-32. Gifts. (a) A covered person or a legislative employee shall not knowingly, directly or indirectly, ask, accept, demand, exact, solicit, seek, assign, receive, or agree to receive anything of value for the covered person or legislative employee, or for another person, in return for being influenced in the discharge of the covered person’s or […]
138A-33. Other compensation. A public servant or legislative employee shall not solicit or receive personal financial gain, other than that received by the public servant or legislative employee from the State, or with the approval of the employing entity, for acting in the public servant’s or legislative employee’s official capacity, or for advice or assistance […]
138A-34. Use of information for private gain. A public servant or legislative employee shall not use or disclose nonpublic information gained in the course of, or by reason of, the public servant’s or legislative employee’s official responsibilities in a way that would affect a personal financial interest of the public servant or legislative employee, a […]
138A-35. Other rules of conduct. (a) A public servant shall make a due and diligent effort before taking any action, including voting or participating in discussions with other public servants on a board on which the public servant also serves, to determine whether the public servant has a conflict of interest. If the public servant […]
138A-36. Public servant participation in official actions. (a) Except as permitted by subsection (d) of this section and under G.S. 138A-38, no public servant acting in that capacity, authorized to perform an official action requiring the exercise of discretion, shall participate in an official action by the employing entity if the public servant knows the […]
138A-37. Legislator participation in legislative actions. (a) Except as permitted under G.S. 138A-38, no legislator shall participate in a legislative action if the legislator knows the legislator or a person with which the legislator is associated may incur a reasonably foreseeable financial benefit from the action, and if after considering whether the legislator’s judgment would […]
138A-38. Permitted participation exception. (a) Notwithstanding G.S. 138A-36 and G.S. 138A-37, a covered person may participate in an official action or legislative action under any of the following circumstances except as specifically limited: (1) The only interest or reasonably foreseeable benefit or detriment that accrues to the covered person, the covered person’s extended family, business […]
138A-39. Disqualification to serve. (a) Within 30 days of notice of the Commission’s determination that a public servant has a disqualifying conflict of interest, the public servant shall eliminate the interest that constitutes the disqualifying conflict of interest or resign from the public position. (b) Failure by a public servant to comply with subsection (a) […]
138A-40. Employment and supervision of members of covered person’s or legislative employee’s extended family. A covered person or legislative employee shall not cause the employment, appointment, promotion, transfer, or advancement of an extended family member of the covered person or legislative employee to a State office, or a position to which the covered person or […]
138A-41. Other ethics standards. (a) Nothing in this Chapter shall prevent the Supreme Court, the Committee, the Legislative Services Commission, constitutional officers of the State, heads of principal departments, the Board of Governors of The University of North Carolina, the State Board of Community Colleges, or other boards from adopting additional or supplemental ethics standards […]
