§ 2-67. Gifts and favors.

(a)

No official or appointive official shall directly or indirectly request, exact, receive or agree to receive a gift, loan, favor, promise or thing of value for the official or appointive official or another person if:

(1)

It tends to influence the official or appointive official in the discharge of official duties; or

(2)

The official or appointive official recently has been, or is now, or in the near future will be, involved in any official act or action directly affecting the donor or lender.

(b)

This section shall not apply in the case of any of the following:

(1)

An occasional, nonpecuniary gift of insignificant value;

(2)

An award publicly presented in recognition of public service;

(3)

A commercially reasonable loan made in the ordinary course of business by an institution authorized by the laws of the state to engage in the making of such a loan.

(Code 1976, § 1-1010(d))