Sample Ethics Laws
While each of the following ethics laws may contain some
deficiencies, such as lack of enforcement authority for the ethics board
or an unnecessarily vague gifts provision, on the whole they offer a
substantial improvement over Article 18 of the General Municipal Law and
illustrate the types of effective local ethics laws municipalities have
adopted. The Municipal
Lawyers Ethics Columns link contains four columns from the
Municipal Lawyer that discuss such laws and provide model
provisions:
Enacting
a Local Ethics Law-Part I: Code of Ethics (Adobe PDF File)
Enacting
a Local Ethics Law-Part II: Disclosure (Adobe PDF File)
Enacting
a Local Ethics Law-Part III: Administration (Adobe PDF File)
Local
Ethics Laws: Model Administrative Provisions (Adobe PDF File).
Related Files
Westchester County Statement of Financial Disclosure (Adobe PDF File)
FD_Form_for_PAAA_Filers (Adobe PDF File)
Model Annual Disclosure Form (Adobe PDF File)
Town of Brookhaven (Adobe PDF File)
Clifton Park LL 10 of 2008 (Adobe PDF File)
Town of Colonie (Adobe PDF File)
Town of East Hampton (Adobe PDF File)
Town of Hyde Park (Adobe PDF File)
Town of Orangetown (Adobe PDF File)
Town of Queensbury (Adobe PDF File)
Town of Southampton (Adobe PDF File)
Town of Milton (Adobe PDF File)
Albany County-Enacted Law (Adobe PDF File)
Albany County-Summary Memo (Adobe PDF File)
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