Sentences with phrase «own ethics code»

An ethics code typically tries to bridge the gap: they tell employees what's ethically required, but they also typically threaten a penalty, most often termination of employment.

It's not — from the people who serve in this Parliament, it's not enough to simply follow the rules or follow the ethics code or even follow the law because we have a government right now that has broken repeatedly all three of those.

These boards even had audit committees, compensation committees, and ethics codes.

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Whereas the old sections of the ethics code generally include the legislators and staffs» spouses and dependent children as beneficiaries of lobbyist expenditures, the new bill does not.

He reported Warner's possible violations of FIFA's ethics code to the soccer body's secretary general, Jerome Valcke.

The ethics committee are bound by their rules to investigate any complaint by an executive committee member under article 16 of the ethics code.

But the town board under Venditto last year passed a major revision of its ethics code, including the creation of a new ethics board, and adopted new financial disclosure forms.

These letters show that the objective of the administration was truly to stop Mr. Romaine from acting in a manner that was detrimental to the taxpayers and in violation of the county ethics code.

Meg Stevens said that the ethics code states that members can not work on campaigns.

The town board has not modified the ethics code since Saladino's appointment.

A fiscally conservative good - government group last week credited Republican Hempstead Town Supervisor Anthony Santino for offering some «common sense proposals» to combat conflicts of interests and nepotism as part of a plan to update the town's ethics code.

Paul Sabatino, a former counsel to the Suffolk Legislature and chief deputy county executive who helped craft Suffolk's ethics code, said if Prudenti took money from defense attorneys for use of the Christina Marie, it was improper.

He said it «underscores that the changes made to the ethics code with great fanfare last summer are wholly insufficient.

Except for the county attorney, the revamped ethics code directs that no member of the five - member board «shall be a public employee in any jurisdiction» or «hold any political party office.»

The decision was signed by Chairman Owen Smith, one of only three members remaining on the Ethics Board since the county legislature revised the county ethics code in July.

The Oyster Bay ethics code requires candidates to disclose sources of income, assets and information about family members.

The most recent person with any clout to take an interest in this mess was John McKinney, the former Senate minority leader, who seemed serious about creating a real legislative ethics code with teeth.

«No board member, pursuant to executive order, may make or offer to make any monetary contribution to the campaign of the governor,» according to the ethics code for M.T.A. board members, for instance.

In his resignation letter, Mr. Meguin chastised the town for an ethics code that was «poorly drafted and requires substantial revision in several areas, particularly dual employment, gifts and the disclosure of other potential conflicts of interest.»

The town of Halfmoon revised its ethics code in 2013, the same year then - Supervisor Melinda Wormuth, a Republican, was under investigation by the FBI.

Recently chosen as a member of the town's Democratic Committee, he had to quit the ethics board because the town's ethics code prohibits him from serving on both bodies.

The board voted 4 - 0 that Schopf, a Republican and an attorney who is an elected at - large representative for Clifton Park on the Saratoga County Board of Supervisors, is considered a town official under Clifton Park's ethics code and as such should not appear in town court representing clients cited for town code violations, or those who have received vehicle or traffic tickets.

Tuesday's action capped off seven months of pointed back - and - forth communications between Schopf and Clifton Park Justices Democrat Robert Rybak and Republican James Hughes, who told Schopf that he couldn't appear in their court because he appeared to be violating the town's ethics code.

CLIFTON PARK — The town's ethics advisory board ruled Tuesday night that Saratoga County Supervisor Jonathan Schopf is violating Clifton Park's ethics code by representing certain legal clients who appear in town court.

Schopf is not facing any penalties for ethics code violations because he proactively asked the board for its opinion on the matter.

The MTA ethics code states: «Employees are prohibited from outside employment, business, professional, or other outside activity that interferes or is in conflict with the proper and effective discharge of the individual's official duties or responsibilities....

Then came another juror note, informing Caproni, «One of the Juror's is having difficulty distinguishing whether exchanging NYS funds for something in return is illegal» and asking if an Assembly ethics code «clearly outlines... this is the case.»

An Assembly ethics code never came up at the trial, and Caproni told the jury to review her instructions on illegal «quid pro quos» and «respectfully exchange views.»

Curran, however, said her plans to reconstitute the board would go farther than Martins» by retraining employees on the county ethics code and encouraging them to report wrongdoing.

Nassau's lame - duck Board of Ethics has rebuffed District Attorney Madeline Singas» request for an opinion on the legality of partisan governmental mailings even as the county attorney acknowledged this week that the board's current membership does not conform with Nassau's revised ethics code.

Buffalo, NY — Erie County Comptroller Mark Poloncarz issued a critical audit Thursday of the county's Board of Ethics and its ethics code.

«If he's going to be in charge of enforcing the ethics code on other people, he should follow it himself.»

Poloncarz is calling on the County Legislature to draft a new law that would update the ethics code.

«You shouldn't be able to hide anything from the public when you're a public official,» said Sabatino, who helped write Suffolk's ethics code.

He also is interested in working with the Poloncarz in revamping the county's ethics code.

In Heins» mind, under the town's ethics code the three officials automatically had forfeited their positions.

«I think it would be unacceptable to reappoint somebody to the Ethics Board who has already shown he is unwilling to follow the ethics code of the town,» Heins said.

Councilman Robert Doherty did not violate the city ethics code when he appeared on behalf of a local bar before a state authority, the city Ethics Commission has ruled.

That's why I prioritized a review of our ethics code and have collaborated with members of the Ulster County Legislature to foster tangible change.

Why not take this opportunity to institute sensible updates to Ulster County's ethics code?

Anton Borovina, who served as first counsel to the county Ethics Commission and who helped draft the law, said, «The Suffolk County ethics law applies to him, and the Suffolk County ethics code requires all employees to file disclosure forms that include information about the spouse, P - E-R-I-O-D.»

«I put in an ethics code.

Now they live in a world of ethics codes, disclosure forms and TMZ.»

Members interested in this area of work aim to raise the visibility of human rights principles as part of the practice of science and its applications, linking ethics codes that guide the scientific, engineering and health communities to human rights principles.

The Canadian military has had an ethics code since 1997; it was last updated in 2013.

The easy answer: Obey medical ethics codes and international humanitarian law and treat the enemy; health care is a human right.

He says the AMA should buttress its commendable reports and ethics codes with more aggressive action.

But nevertheless, «ethics codes are proliferating like mushrooms on a damp lawn,» asserted Edmund Pellegrino, John Carroll professor of medicine and medical ethics at the Center for Clinical Bioethics at Georgetown University.

The ethics code says that while federal employees may talk about their own work, they should not publicly criticize government policy.