N.Y. General Municipal Law § 805-a: Certain action prohibited

§ 805-a. Certain action prohibited. 1. No municipal officer or

employee shall: a. directly or indirectly, solicit any gift, or accept

or receive any gift having a value of seventy-five dollars or more,

whether in the form of money, service, loan, travel, entertainment,

hospitality, thing or promise, or in any other form, under circumstances

in which it could reasonably be inferred that the gift was intended to

influence him, or could reasonably be expected to influence him, in the

performance of his official duties or was intended as a reward for any

official action on his part;

b. disclose confidential information acquired by him in the course of

his official duties or use such information to further his personal

interests;

c. receive, or enter into any agreement, express or implied, for

compensation for services to be rendered in relation to any matter

before any municipal agency of which he is an officer, member or

employee or of any municipal agency over which he has jurisdiction or to

which he has the power to appoint any member, officer or employee; or

d. receive, or enter into any agreement, express or implied, for

compensation for services to be rendered in relation to any matter

before any agency of his municipality, whereby his compensation is to be

dependent or contingent upon any action by such agency with respect to

such matter, provided that this paragraph shall not prohibit the fixing

at any time of fees based upon the reasonable value of the services

rendered.

2. In addition to any penalty contained in any other provision of law,

any person who shall knowingly and intentionally violate this section

may be fined, suspended or removed from office or employment in the

manner provided by law.