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SUBD. 3. RESPONSIBILITIES OF PUBLIC OFFICE. Public Officials are agents of public purpose and hold office for the benefit of the public. They are bound to uphold the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of Minnesota and to impartially carry out the laws of the nation, state and the City of Hastings and thus foster respect for all government. They are bound to observe in their official acts the highest standards of morality and to discharge faithfully the duties of their office regardless of personal considerations, recognizing that the public interest must be their primary concern. Their conduct in both their official and private affairs should be above reproach. (b) (a) (b) (a). (a) (b) SUBD. 4. DEDICATED SERVICE. All public officials of the City of Hastings should be loyal to the political objectives expressed by the electorate and the programs developed to attain those objectives. - Public Officials should not exceed their authority or break the law, or ask others to do so. They should work in full cooperation with other public officials unless prohibited from doing so by law. (a) SUBD. 5. FAIR AND EQUAL TREATMENT. No public official shall request or permit the use of City owned vehicles. equipment, materials or property for personal convenience or profit. except when such services re available to the public generally or provided by municipal policy for the use of such public official in the conduct of official business. " No public official shall grant any special consideration, treatment, or advantage to any citizen beyond that which is available to every other citizen. SUBD. 6. CONFLICT OF INTEREST. No public official shall engage in any business or transaction or shall have a financial or other personal interest direct or indirect, which is incompatible with the proper discharge of their duties in the public interest or which impairs their independence of judgment or action in the performance of their official duties. This includes an interest arising from blood or marriage relationships. close business or political association. The following acts. although not intended to be all inclusive, shall be deemed to be a conflict of interest: (1) Incompatible employment as provided by Minnesota Statutes. (2) Use of confidential information, obtained as a result of public position, for .personal gain. Soliciting of personal gifts and favors by a public official. Use of official position for personal gain. Representation by a public official of private interests before City governmental agencies and participation in the profits from such representation. Contracting with the City by a business in which a public official has a substantial or controlling interest. (3) (4) (5) (6) SUBD. 7. PUBLIC DISCLOSURE. Not later than ninety (gO) days after the date of this ordinance, each public official of the City of Hastings shall file for public record in the office of the City Clerk, a sworn statement in a form approved by the City Council by resolution and which must contain, at a minimum, the following information: (1) The names of all businesses, corporations, companies, firms, partnerships, or other business enterprises, doing business with or in the City of Hastings, in which said public official is connected thereto as an employee, owner, director, officer, adviser or consultant, or in which said public official has a continuing financial interest, through ownership of stock or as a beneficiary of any pension or retirement plan. A description of all parcels of real property, other than property occupied by said public official as a personal residence, in which said public official has any interest, including the right to occupy any such property. (2)