4.15.005 General provisions.
A. Discrimination. The city shall not refuse employment to a person, or bar a person from employment, or discriminate against a person in compensation or in a term, condition or privilege of employment because of the person’s race, religion, color, or national origin, or because of the person’s age, physical or mental disability, gender, marital status, changes in marital status, pregnancy or parenthood when the reasonable demands of the position do not require distinction on the basis of age, physical or mental disability, gender, marital status, changes in marital status, pregnancy or parenthood.
B. Minimum Age. The minimum age for city employment shall be in accordance with the minimum ages prescribed by state law.
C. No person who seeks employment or promotion with respect to any position may directly or indirectly give, render or pay any money, service or other valuable thing to any person for or in connection with his or her tests, appointment, proposed appointment, promotion or proposed promotion.
D. A person reemployed shall be appointed to the position in accordance with the pay and benefits scale in effect at the time of the new appointment. The fact that the person was formerly employed in accordance with a higher scale shall not be considered in making the new appointment.
E. Nepotism.
1. No person may be employed in a position by the city who is a spouse, domestic partner, or close relative of the city manager.
2. No person may be employed in a position in a department who is a spouse, domestic partner, or close relative of the department director.
3. In addition, no person may be employed in a direct or indirect supervisory position regarding a spouse, domestic partner, or close relative.
4. Department directors may not be spouses, domestic partners, or close relatives of one another.
5. “Domestic partners” means any person with whom the employee maintains shared household and conjugal relations.
6. “A close relative of an employee” means the employee’s child, parent, in-laws and sibling, whether in full, half, or step relationship, by blood or adoption. (Ord. 12-001 § 3, 2013)