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Earlier editions: 2026-09

Title 12 — ETHICS AND OPEN GOVERNMENT PROVISIONS›Chapter 12.20 — NEPOTISM AND CONSENSUAL PERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS

San Jose Municipal Code Part 4 Consensual Personal Relationships

San Jose Municipal Code · 2026-10 edition · updated 2026-10-04 · San Jose

Cite as: San Jose Municipal Code Part 4 · Text as of 2026-10-04

12.20.400 - Responsibility.

Where a consensual personal relationship exists, the public official will bear the primary burden of accountability, and must ensure that he or she does not exercise any supervisory or evaluative function related to the employee or subordinate. In such a case, the public official has the responsibility to ensure that the employee is provided alternative employment arrangements outside of the public official's chain of command.

(Ord. 28204.)

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