c. Any public utility or agent or officer thereof who offers or gives for any purpose to any public officer or to any person at the request or for the advantage of such officer, any frank or any privilege withheld from any person for any product or service produced, transmitted, delivered, furnished or rendered or to be produced, transmitted, delivered, furnished, or rendered by any public utility, or any free product or service whatsoever; or

d. Any public officer who asks for or accepts or uses in any manner or for any purpose any frank or privilege withheld from any person for any product or service produced, transmitted, delivered, furnished, or rendered by any public utility.

b. In the officer’s or employee’s capacity as such officer or employee, does an act which the officer or employee knows is in excess of the officer’s or employee’s lawful authority or which the officer or employee knows the officer or employee is forbidden by law to do in the officer’s or employee’s official capacity; or

c. Whether by act of commission or omission, in the officer’s or employee’s capacity as such officer or employee exercises a discretionary power in a manner inconsistent with the duties of the officer’s or employee’s office or employment or the rights of others and with intent to obtain a dishonest advantage for the officer or employee or another; or

d. In the officer’s or employee’s capacity as such officer or employee, makes an entry in an account or record book or return, certificate, report, or statement which in a material respect the officer or employee intentionally falsifies; or

e. Under color of the officer’s or employee’s office or employment, intentionally solicits or accepts for the performance of any service or duty anything of value that the officer or employee knows is greater or less than is fixed by law.

7. Section 946.13, Wis. stats., Private Interest in Public Contracts Prohibited, which provides that, except as provided in s. 946.13 (2) and (5) to (12), Wis. stats., any public officer or public employee who does any of the following is guilty of a Class I felony:

a. In the officer’s or employee’s private capacity, negotiates or bids for or enters into a contract in which the officer or employee has a private pecuniary interest, direct or indirect, if at the same time the officer or employee is authorized or required by law to participate in the officer’s or employee’s capacity as such officer or employee in the making of that contract or to perform in regard to that contract some official function requiring the exercise of discretion on the officer’s or employee’s part; or

b. In the officer’s or employee’s capacity as such officer or employee, participates in the making of a contract in which the officer or employee has a private pecuniary interest, direct or indirect, or performs in regard to that contract some function requiring the exercise of discretion on the officer’s or employee’s part.

8. Section 946.14, Wis. stats., Purchasing Claims at Less than Full Value, which provides that any public officer or public employee who in a private capacity directly or indirectly intentionally purchases for less than full value or discounts any claim held by another against the state or a political subdivision thereof or against any public fund is guilty of a Class I felony.

G. (Optional) No town official or town employee, nor any member of a town official’s or town employee’s immediate family, nor any organization for which the town official or town employee or a member of the town official’s or town employee’s immediate family owns or controls at least 10% of the outstanding equity, voting rights, or outstanding indebtedness may enter into any contract or lease involving payment of more than $________ [insert amount not exceeding $15,000] within a 12-month period, in whole or in part derived from town funds, unless the town official or town employee has first made written disclosure of the nature and extent of the relationship or interest to the town board and to the town clerk. Any contract or lease entered into in violation of this subsection may be voided by the town board or in an action commenced within 3 years of the date on which the ethics board or officer acting for the town in regard to the allocation of funds from which payment is derived, knew or should have known that a violation of this subsection had occurred. This subsection does not affect the application of s. 946.13, Wis. stats.

H. Except for a town official or town employee acting in his or her official capacity, no town official or town employee may represent a person for compensation before any town board, commission, committee, or other body of any type, or any other town official or town employee, except in any of the following cases:

I. No former town official or town employee may do any of the following:

1. For 12 months following the date on which he or she ceases to be a town official or town employee, for compensation, on behalf of any person other than a governmental entity, make any formal or informal appearance before or negotiate with, any town official or town employee or a town board, commission, committee, or other body of any type with which he or she was associated as a town official or employee, within 12 months prior to the date on which he or she ceased to be an official or employee.

2. For compensation, act on behalf of any party other than the town in connection with any judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding, application, contract, claim, or charge that might give rise to a judicial or quasi-judicial proceeding in which the former town official or town employee participated personally and substantially as a town official or town employee.

J. (Optional) No person, including any town official or town employee, may knowingly make any oral false statements under oath or before any town board, commission, committee, or body of any type that the person does not believe to be true in any matter, cause, action, or proceeding. It is not a defense to a prosecution under this ordinance that the false statement was later corrected or retracted by that person.

K. (Optional) No person, including any town official or town employee, under oath or affirmation may knowingly make or subscribe a written false statement or knowingly make a false statement with intent that it shall appear to have been served under oath or affirmation that the person does not believe is true. It is not a defense to a prosecution under this ordinance that the false statement was later corrected or retracted by that person.

L. (Optional) No person, including any town official or town employee, may intentionally take and carry away, use, transfer, convey, or retain possession of property of the town without consent of the town board or its designated agent, with intent to deprive the town permanently of the property.

M. No town official or town employee may do any of the following:

1. Take any official action substantially affecting a matter in which the official or employee, one or more members of the official’s or employee’s immediate family either separately or together, or an organization with which the official or the employee is associated has a substantial financial interest.

2. Use his or her office or position in a way that produces or assists in the production of a substantial benefit, direct or indirect, for the town official or town employee, one or more members of the official’s or employee’s immediate family either separately or together, or an organization with which the official or the employee is associated.

N. This ordinance does not prohibit a town official or town employee from taking official action concerning the lawful payment of salaries or employee benefits or reimbursement of actual and necessary expenses.

O. This ordinance does not prohibit the town clerk, or other town elected or appointed official or town employee from making inquiries for information on behalf of a person or organization if the town clerk, official, or employee receives no compensation therefor beyond the salary and other compensation or reimbursements to which the official or employee is entitled by law from the town.