38-502. Definitions
In this article, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. "Compensation" means money, a tangible thing of value or a financial benefit.
2. "Employee" means all persons who are not public officers and who are employed on
a full-time, part-time or contract basis by an incorporated city or town, a political
subdivision or the state or any of its departments, commissions, agencies, bodies or
boards for remuneration.
3. "Make known" means the filing of a paper which is signed by a public officer or
employee and which fully discloses a substantial interest or the filing of a copy of the
official minutes of a public agency which fully discloses a substantial interest. The
filing shall be in the special file established pursuant to section 38-509.
4. "Official records" means the minutes or papers, records and documents maintained
by a public agency for the specific purpose of receiving disclosures of substantial
interests required to be made known by this article.
5. "Political subdivision" means all political subdivisions of the state and
county, including all school districts.
6. "Public agency" means:
(a) All courts.
(b) Any department, agency, board, commission, institution, instrumentality or
legislative or administrative body of the state, a county, an incorporated town or city
and any other political subdivision.
(c) The state, county and incorporated cities or towns and any other political
subdivisions.
7. "Public competitive bidding" means the method of purchasing defined in title 41,
chapter 4, article 3, or procedures substantially equivalent to such method of
purchasing, or as provided by local charter or ordinance.
8. "Public officer" means all elected and appointed officers of a public agency
established by charter, ordinance, resolution, state constitution or statute.
9. "Relative" means the spouse, child, child's child, parent, grandparent, brother
or sister of the whole or half blood and their spouses and the parent, brother, sister or
child of a spouse.
10. "Remote interest" means:
(a) That of a nonsalaried officer of a nonprofit corporation.
(b) That of a landlord or tenant of the contracting party.
(c) That of an attorney of a contracting party.
(d) That of a member of a nonprofit cooperative marketing association.
(e) The ownership of less than three per cent of the shares of a corporation for
profit, provided the total annual income from dividends, including the value of stock
dividends, from the corporation does not exceed five per cent of the total annual income
of such officer or employee and any other payments made to him by the corporation do not
exceed five per cent of his total annual income.
(f) That of a public officer or employee in being reimbursed for his actual and
necessary expenses incurred in the performance of official duty.
(g) That of a recipient of public services generally provided by the incorporated
city or town, political subdivision or state department, commission, agency, body or
board of which he is a public officer or employee, on the same terms and conditions as if
he were not an officer or employee.
(h) That of a public school board member when the relative involved is not a
dependent, as defined in section 43-1001, or a spouse.
(i) That of a public officer or employee, or that of a relative of a public officer
or employee, unless the contract or decision involved would confer a direct economic
benefit or detriment upon the officer, employee or his relative, of any of the following:
(i) Another political subdivision.
(ii) A public agency of another political subdivision.
(iii) A public agency except if it is the same governmental entity.
(j) That of a member of a trade, business, occupation, profession or class of
persons consisting of at least ten members which is no greater than the interest of the
other members of that trade, business, occupation, profession or class of persons.
11. "Substantial interest" means any pecuniary or proprietary interest, either
direct or indirect, other than a remote interest.
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