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4 2) Authorize, recommend, or in any other way use his or her position to secure approval of an Orange County contract (including employment or personal services) in which the Senior Staff Member has a business or employment relationship or interest. Section 4. Gifts and Honoraria. 1) A Senior Staff Member of Orange County shall not knowingly, directly or indirectly ask, accept, demand, exact, solicit, seek, assign, receive, or agree to receive any gift or honorarium for the Senior Staff Member, or for another person, in return for being influenced in the discharge of the Senior Staff Member's official responsibilities, other than that which is received by the Senior Staff Member's official capacity. 2) A Senior Staff Member may not solicit for a charitable purpose any gift from any subordinate County employee. This section shall not apply to generic written solicitations to all Members of a class of subordinates. Nothing in this subsection shall prohibit a Senior Staff Member from ser~•ing as the honorary head of a charitable solicitation for a nonprofit business tntity_qualifying under 26 U.S.C. § 501 (c) (3). 3) It is acknowledged that departments occasionally solicit for charitable purposes with County Manager approval. Such occasions shall not fall within the purview of this policy when the County Manager has authorized; in writing, such activity. Section 5. Disclosure of confidential information. Senior Staff Members shall nc~t use or disclose confidential information protected by law, unless appropriatelyauthc>1-i~.e~. Section 6. Use of information for private gain. A Senior Staff Member shall not kno~yingly use their public position or title in an official action or legislative action that will. result in financial benefit, direct or indirect, to the Senior Staff Member, a family member, or business with which the Senior Staff Member is associated. Section 7. Ethics Education. All Senior Staff Members shall receive a minimum of one clock hour of ethics education every calendar year with the first applicable calendar year beginning the first full calendar year after the adoption of this policy. New Senior Staff Members who are hired before June 30a' of any given year must complete one clock hour of ethics training prior to the end date of the calendar year of their employment and each year thereafter according to this Section. Those employed July 1St or after must begin receiving ethics training the first full calendar year of employment and each year thereafter according to this Section.