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<br />things received during the h2 months preceding the reporting period <br />under subsection (c) of this section, and shall include the source of those <br />things. The list required by this subdivision shall not apply to things of <br />monetary value received by the filing person prior to the time the person <br />was elected to office or was appointed or employed as a covered person. <br />(9) A list of any felony convictions of the filing person. <br />(b) Each statement of economic interest shall contain sworn certification by the <br />filing person that the filing person has read the statement and that, to the best of the filing <br />person's knowledge and belief, the statement is true, correct, and complete. The filing <br />person's sworn certification also shall provide that the filing person has not transferred, <br />and will not transfer, any asset, interest, or other property for the purpose of concealing it <br />from disclosure while retaining an equitable interest therein. <br />(c) All information provided in the statement of economic interest shall be current <br />as of the last day of December of the year preceding the date the statement of economic <br />interest was due. <br />Section 5. Failure to file. <br />Within 30 days after the date due under Section 2 of this Article, the Clerk to the <br />County Board of Colrunissioners shall notify persons who have failed to file or persons <br />whose statement is deemed incomplete. The Clerk to the County .Board of <br />Commissioners shall simultaneously notify the County Board of Commissioners. <br />Article 3. <br />Ethical Standards for Covered Persons. <br />Section 1. Use of public position for private gain. <br />(a) Except as permitted under Section 8, a covered person shall not knowingly use <br />the covered person's public position in an official action or legislative action that will <br />result in fmancial benefit, direct or indirect, to the covered person, a member of the <br />covered person's extended family, or business with which the covered person is <br />associated. This subsection shall not apply to fmancial or other benefits derived by a <br />covered person that the covered person would enjoy to an extent no greater than that <br />which other citizens of the County would or could enjoy, or that are so remote, tenuous, <br />insignificant, or speculative that a reasonable person would conclude under the <br />circumstances that the covered person's ability to protect the public interest and perforn <br />the covered person's official duties would not be coinproinised. <br />(b) A covered person shall not mention or permit another person to mention the <br />covered person's public position in non-County govermnental advertising that advances <br />the private interest of the covered person or others. The prohibition in this subsection <br />shall not apply to political advertising, news stories, news articles, the inclusion of a <br />covered person's position in a directory or biographical listing, or the charitable <br />solicitation for a nonprofit business entity qualifying under 26 U.S.C. § 50h(c)(3). <br />(c) No covered person shall- use or permit the use of County funds for any <br />advertisement or public service announcement in a newspaper, on radio, television, <br />magazines, or billboards, that contains that covered person's name, picture, or voice, <br />8 <br />