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HomeMy WebLinkAbout2008 02 19 Handout Regarding Regular 600Date: February 19, 2008 HANDOUT GIVEN CHAIRMAN OUT BY MATI S AK REGARDING REGULAR ITEM 600. 112.3143 Voting conflicts.- (1) As used in this section: (a) "Public officer" includes any person elected or appointed to hold office in any agency, including any person serving on an advisory body. (b) "Relative" means any father, mother, son, daughter, husband, wife, brother, sister, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, or daughter-in-law. (2) No state public officer is prohibited from voting in an official capacity on any matter. However, any state public officer voting in an official capacity upon any measure which would inure to the officer's special private gain or loss; which he or she knows would inure to the special private gain or loss of any principal by whom the officer is retained or to the parent organiza- tion or subsidiary of a corporate principal by which the officer is retained; or which the officer knows would inure to the special private gain or loss of a relative or business associate of the public officer shall, within 15 days after the vote occurs, disclose the nature of his or her interest as a public record in a memorandum filed with the person responsible for recording the minutes of the meeting, who shall incorporate the memorandum in the minutes. (3)(a) No county, municipal, or other local public officer shall vote in an official capacity upon any mea- surewhich would inure to his or her special private gain or loss; which he or she knows would inure to the spe- cial private gain or loss of any principal by whom he or she is retained or to the parent organization or subsid- iary of a corporate principal by which he or she is retained, other than an agency as defined in s. 112.312(2); or which he or she knows would inure to the special private gain or loss of a relative or business associate of the public officer. Such public officer shall, prior to the vote being taken, publicly state to the assembly the nature of the officer's interest in the mat- 35 Ch. 112 PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLC ter from which he or she is abstaining from voting and, within i 5 days after the vote occurs, disclose the nature of his or her interest as a public record in a memoran- dumfiled with the person responsible for recording the minutes of the meeting, who shall incorporate the mem- orandum in the minutes. (b) However, a commissioner of a community rede• velopment agency created or designated pursuant to s. 163.356 or s. 163.357, or an officer of an independent special tax district elected on a one-acre, one-vote basis, is not prohibited from voting, when voting in said officer shall business associate of the oublic officer `~l' a public ~'~ j/~ 3i~> l~l~~>c~~~) r to the meeting or that any to the other me has not dis- (5) Whenever a public officer or ormer public offi- cer is being considered for appointment or reappoint- ment topublic office, the appointing body shall consider the number and nature of the memoranda of conflict previously filed under this section by said officer. History.--s. B, ch. 75.208; s. 2, ch. 84318; s. i, rh. 84357; s. 2, ch. 86148; s. 5, ch. 91.85; s. 3, ch. 9x277; s. 1408, ch. 95.147; s. 43, ch. 99.2.