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-3- <br />Similar language to the above mentioned treatment afforded <br />to a special municipal employee is found in Section 18 which <br />deals with the issue of former municipal employees acting as <br />agents or attorneys for persons having business with the Town. <br />Section 19 of Chapter 268A deals with the general subject <br />matter of municipal employees, their relatives and associates <br />and any financial interest they might have in a particular mat- <br />ter involving the Town. Specifically this Section says 11(a) <br />Except as permitted by paragraph (b)�, a municipal employee who <br />participates as such an employee in a particular matter in which <br />to his knowledge he, his immediate family or partner, a business <br />organization in which he is serving as officer,- director, trustee, <br />partner or employee, or any person or organization with whom he is <br />negotiating or has any arrangement concerning prospective employ- <br />ment, has a financial interest, shall be punished by a fine of not <br />more than $3000 or by imprisonment for not more than two years or <br />both. (b) It shall not be a violation of this Section (1) if the <br />op <br />municipal employee first advises, the official responsible for ap- <br />pointment to his position of the nature and circumstances of the <br />particular matter and makes full disclosure of such financial in- <br />terest, and receives in advance a written determination made by <br />that official that the interest is not so substantial as to be <br />deemed, likely to affect the integrity of the services which the <br />municipality may expect from the employee, or (2) if, in the case <br />of an elected municipal, official. making demand, bank deposits of <br />municipal funds, said Official first files, with the Clerk of the <br />City or Town, a statement making full disclosure of such financial <br />interest, Or (3) if, by statute, the financial interest has been <br />exempted from the requirements of Clause (1) as being too remote <br />or being too inconsequential to affect the integrity of municipal <br />employee's services." <br />You can see from the language recited in Section 19 that it is <br />addressed to a situation wherein a municipal employee is prohibited <br />from dealing in his capacity as a municipal employee in any particu- <br />lar matter in which he has a financial interest. <br />Section 20, is perhaps the 'most significant of the Sections <br />