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Augusta Richmond GA
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ORDINANCE NO. sY.;}:J
AN ORDINANCE ADOPTING A CODE OF ETHICS FOR
GOVERNMENT SERVICE; TO PROVIDE AN EFFECTIVE
DATE; TO REPEAL CONFLICTING ORDINANCES; AND
FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE AUGUSTA-RICHMOND COUNTY COMMISSION-
COUNCIL, AND IT IS HEREBY ORDAINED BY AUTHORITY OF SAME AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The following Code of Ethics for Government
Service
is hereby adopted by the Augusta-Richmond County
Commission-Council, to-wit:
CODE OF ETHICS FOR GOVERNMENT SERVICE
Any person in government service should:
I. Put loyalty to the highest moral principles and to
country above loyalty to person, party, or government
department.
II. Uphold the Constitution, laws, and legal regulations
of the United States and the State of Georgia and of all
governments therein and never be a party to their
evasion.
III. Give a full day's labor for a full day's pay and
give to the performance of his duties his earnest effort
and best thought.
IV. Seek to find and employ more efficient and
economical ways of accomplishing tasks.
V. Never discriminate unfairly by the dispensing of
special favors or privileges to anyone, whether for
remuneration or not, and never accept, for himself or his
family, favors or benefits under circumstances which
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might be construed by reasonable persons as influencing
the performance of his governmental duties.
VI. Make no private promises of any kind binding upon
the duties of office, since a government employee has no
private word which can be binding on public duty.
VII. Engage in no business with the government, either
directly or indirectly, which is inconsistent with the
conscientious performance of his governmental duties.
VIII. Never use any information coming to him
confidentially in the performance of governmental duties
as a means for making private profit.
IX. Expose corruption wherever discovered.
X. Uphold these principles, ever conscious that public
office is a public trust. (Ga. L. 1968, p. 1369.)
Section 2.
This Ordinance shall become effective
immediately upon adoption.
Duly adopted by the Augusta-Richmond County Commission-
Council by a vote of for,
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this~ day of r~~'996o
against, and
abstention,
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ATTEST:
By, . naA!{ iJ 'lnt)l;~~
f)l'PUTY ~~ -. _ - .
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