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RESOLUTION NO. 6747
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A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF AZUSA ADOPTING A CODE OF ETHICS FOR
GOVERNMENT SERVICES AS AGREED TO BY THE IiOUSE
OF REPRESENTATIVES AND THE SENATE AS HOUSE
CONCURRENT RESOLUTION NO. 175 IN THE SECOND
SESSION OF THE 85th CONGRESS.
Now therefore the City Council of the City of Azusa does
resolve as follows:
WHEREAS, Any Person in Government Service should:
SECTION 1. Put loyalty to the highest moral principles
and to country above loyalty to persons, party, or
Government department.
SECTION 2. Uphold the Constitution, laws, and legal
regulations of the United States and all governments
therein and never be a, party to,their evasion.
SECTION 3. Give a -fuli'day's labor for a full day's pay;
giving to the performance of his duties his earnest effort
and best, thought."
SECTION 4. Seek to find and employ more efficient and
economical ways of gettfng'tasks accomplished.
SECTION 5. 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 might
be construed by reasonable persons as influencing the
performance of his governmental duties.
SECTION 6. 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.
SECTION 7. Engage in no business with the Government,
either directly or indirectly, which is inconsistent with
the conscientious performance of his governmental duties.
SECTION S. Never use any information coming to him
confidentially in the performance of governmental duties
as a means for making private profit.
SECTION 9. Expose corruption wherever discovered.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council of the City of
Azusa hereby takes action to uphold these principles, ever conscious
that public office is a public trust.
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I hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was duly
adopted by the City Council -of the City of Azusa at a regular meeting
thereof held on the 15th day of January, 1979, by the following vote
of the Council:
AYES: Councilmen: Decker, Fry, Cruz, Moses, Solem
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT: Councilmen: None j
Ci -y Clerk