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Section 2.10 Gifts <br />City employees may not solicit or accept gifts from any person or company that has a direct <br />financial interest in a decision that the City is authorized to make. No gift may be accepted from <br />consultants, vendors, permit applicants, job applicants, local businesses, or others that have a <br />financial interest in the decision the City may make. <br />The only exceptions to the ban on gifts are: <br />services of insignificant monetary value; <br />a plaque or similar memento recognizing individual services in a field of specialty or a <br />charitable cause; <br />a trinket or memento costing $5 or less; <br />informational material of insignificant value; <br />food or beverage given at a reception, meal, or meeting away from the employee’s place of <br />work by an organization before whom the employee appears to make a speech or answer <br />questions as part of a program; <br />gifts given because of the employee’s membership in group, a majority of whose members <br />are not local officials, and an equivalent gift is given to the other members of the group; or <br />gifts given by a person who is a member of the employee’s family unless the gift is given on <br />behalf of someone who is not a member of the family. <br />gifts given by a national or multistate organization of governmental organizations or public <br />officials, if a majority of the dues to the organization are paid from public funds, to attendees at a <br />conference sponsored by that organization, if the gift is food or a beverage given at a reception or <br />meal and an equivalent gift is given or offered to all other attendees. <br />Minn. Stat. §471.895 and Minn. Stat. §471.87 <br />45