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In the News (Wed 11 Nov 09)

  
  A Public Servant's Commitments
The public servant is committed to communicating with the public in a respectful manner that acknowledges the centrality of the citizen.
A public servant is committed to observing the highest ethical standards, to maintaining objectivity and be free of conflicts of interest in discharging professional responsibilities.
The public servant is committed to a continual process of re-evaluation of the existing conditions of democratic governance and the roles and responsibilities of the public service within that context.
www.ipac.ca /ethics/a_public_servants_commitments__a_draft_proposal_fr   (821 words)

  
 Ethics code of public servants
Public servant must designate the office hours that are open for the individual meetings and should be available for citizens at her/his workplace.
Thus, public servant should not put obstacles to citizen, to attend the session of any official body or participate in discussion of issues presented at the session, if it is not explicitly prohibited by the legislation of Georgia.
Public servant is responsible for the legality of her/his actions and/or decisions, for the fulfillment of requirements stated here.
www.una.org.ge /transparency/code.html   (636 words)

  
 JURCRM0402   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The essence of the crime of bribe receiving is that a public servant or person selected to be a public servant solicits, receives, or agrees to accept a benefit from another person.
The bribe must relate to the exercise of the public servant's official powers or to the function of the public servant or person selected to be a public servant, as opposed to his individual capacity.
A ''public servant'' is an officer or employee of government, elected or appointed, and any person participating as adviser, consultant or otherwise, either paid or unpaid, in performing a governmental function.
www.jud.state.ct.us /CriminalJury/4-2.html   (428 words)

  
 Code of Governmental Ethics   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
(iv) For public servants in the legislative branch of state government, it shall mean the agency or house of the legislature by which a public employee is employed and the legislative branch in the case of legislators.
Public servants of political subdivisions shall include, but shall not be limited to, elected officials and public employees of municipalities, parishes, and other political subdivisions; sheriffs and their employees; district attorneys and their employees; coroners and their employees; and clerks of court and their employees.
Upon finding at a public hearing that there is probable cause to believe that any public servant or other person has violated any criminal law of this state, the board or panel shall forward a copy of its findings to the district attorney of the parish in which the violation occurred, for appropriate action.
www.ethics.state.la.us /laws/ethiclaw.htm   (13335 words)

  
 Opinion #5768   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Not only is a public servant prohibited from being a party, directly or indirectly, to any contract between the public servant and the public entiry which the public servant serves, 1968 PA 317, Sec.
4(b), supra, permits a public servant to be a party to a contract with the entity which is served, where a conflict of interest otherwise exists under the act, when the procedure of competitive bidding to the lowest qualified bidder is used to award the contract and the contract is not with the public servant.
'Public servants' of a public entity as used in 1968 PA 317, supra, includes both officers and employees of the public entity involved.
www.ag.state.mi.us /opinion/datafiles/1980s/op05768.htm   (633 words)

  
 Assault on public servant petition was not fatal in face of motion for failure to allege how the victim was a public ...
He concedes that the pleadings in the petition track the statutes he was alleged to have violated but argues that the petition did not notify him "how the complaining witness was a public servant" and, therefore, did not adequately describe with reasonable particularity the manner of acts he was alleged to have committed.
The statutorily defined term is neither vague nor indefinite; moreover, the term "public servant" describes the type of complaining witness and does not go to an act or omission of the accused.
F.C. further contends that the evidence is legally insufficient to prove that the teacher in question was a public servant because it was not shown that she was an employee of a state, county, municipality, or political subdivision.
www.tjpc.state.tx.us /publications/reviews/03/03-3-06.htm   (1814 words)

  
 PUBLIC SERVICE ANTI - CORRUPTION STRATEGY
This involves a public servant acting or failing to act on a matter where the public servant has an interest or another person or entity that stands in a relationship with the public servant has an interest.
Example: A public servant considers tenders for a contract and awards the tender to a company of which his/her partner is a director.
This involves the use of privileged information and knowledge that a public servant posses as a result of his/her office to provide unfair advantage to another person or entity to obtain a benefit, or to accrue a benefit himself/herself.
www.unodc.org /southafrica_reports/dimensions.htm   (823 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
(2) "Public servant" means a person who is elected, appointed, employed, or designated, even if not yet qualified for or having assumed the duties of office, as: (A) a candidate for nomination or election to public office; or (B) an officer of government.
(a) A public servant who has a legal or equitable interest in property that is to be acquired with public funds shall file an affidavit within 10 days before the date on which the property is to be acquired by purchase or condemnation.
In this subchapter, "public officer" means an officer of the state or of a county, municipality, or school district of the state.
www.capitol.state.tx.us /statutes/docs/GV/content/word/gv.005.00.000553.00.doc   (452 words)

  
 Opinion #6966   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The public servant conflicts of interest act, 1968 PA 317, applies to officers and employees of public school academies.
(a) "Public servant" includes all persons serving any public entity, except members of the legislature and state officers who are within the provisions of section 10 of article 4 of the state constitution as implemented by legislative act.
Officers and employees of public school academies, therefore, are subject to the mandates of that statute.
www.ag.state.mi.us /opinion/datafiles/1990s/op10036.htm   (343 words)

  
 TITLE 6: CHAPTER 5 - ARTICLE 1 - OFFENSES BY PUBLIC OFFICIALS   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
(a) A public servant commits soliciting unlawful compensation if he solicits, accepts or agrees to accept a pecuniary benefit for the performance of an official action knowing that he was required to perform that action without compensation or at a level of compensation lower than that requested.
An elected or appointed public officer or his deputy commits a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars ($1,000.00) if he performs any duty of his office without taking and subscribing the oath prescribed by law or before giving and filing the bond required by law.
A public officer who requires a deputy appointed by him to divide or pay back to the officer a part of the legal fees of the deputy is guilty of a felony punishable by imprisonment for not more than three (3) years, a fine of not more than five thousand dollars ($5,000.00), or both.
legisweb.state.wy.us /statutes/titles/title06/c05a01.htm   (1370 words)

  
 PUBLIC SERVANT'S QUESTIONNAIRE
Public Law 93-579 states in part: "The purpose of this Act is to provide certain safeguards for an individual against invasion of personal privacy requiring Federal agencies...
Name of department of government, bureau, or agency by which public servant is employed.
Will the public servant guarantee that the information in these files will not be used by any other department other than the one by whom he is employed?
healingtools.tripod.com /psq2.html   (481 words)

  
 Public Servant Lifestyle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
With action on race & disability issues already underway public sector employers must also be champions of gender rights, urges equalities Minister.
Public sector managers are "the most bullied" in the UK workplace, according to an extensive new study from the Chartered Management Institute.
As the 'Government' jobs drive continues public sector recruitment and job prospects look to be on the rise.
www.publicservantlifestyle.co.uk   (384 words)

  
 Serve A Public Servant   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Participating churches should identify a "Serve A Public Servant" coordinator from within the congregation, preferably an individual who is a member of Firefighter Ministries.
A public servant, or someone who has had regular, positive contact with the emergency services community will be more familiar and more comfortable with both the overt and subtle nuances of the emergency services sub-culture.
The purpose of “Serve A Servant” is to help introduce public servants to the church as well as providing another safe, supportive group.
www.theultimatefirehouse.com /serveapublicservant.htm   (1752 words)

  
 Public Servant Online
Public Servant Events is the latest venture from PSCA International, the UK 's fastest growing public sector specific publishing house.
Public Servant Events has been established with the same ethos firmly in mind.
The public sector will be fined millions of pounds by the EU for failing to meet its obligations under the European Landfill Directive, a top city lawyer has warned.
www.publicservant.co.uk   (609 words)

  
 Parenthood vs. promotion: a public servant's dilemma
A growing number of parents who work in the federal public service are discouraged by barriers to career advancement, a new study shows.
Lam says the public service's rules allow for maternity leave, but women still feel they have to make a choice between career advancement and raising a family.
And while 75 per cent of public service professionals said a balance between career and family life was crucial, only 45 per cent of them admitted being able to juggle work and child rearing.
www.carleton.ca /Capital_News/05021999/n5.htm   (883 words)

  
 Sun.Star Cagayan de Oro - Simeon V. Licayan: Public Servant At-Large   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
But as fate would have it, Brod Sim was destined to be a public servant, entering government service as a janitor in 1956 during the administration of then City Mayor Justiniano Borja.
With the virtues of a true public servant, Brod Sim rose from the ranks as janitor, messenger, clerk, legal draftsman until 20 years later, when he became the Secretary of the City Council in 1976, and as a duly elected city councilor during the May 2004 elections.
Even as a duly elected city council, he remains to be the ever workaholic public servant that he is, still reporting at the City Mayor's Office everyday to assist the City Mayor in administrative tasks.
www.sunstar.com.ph /static/cag/2005/01/16/life/simeon.v..licayan.public.servant.at.large.html   (823 words)

  
 Term Paper on public servant
The basic goal of this essay is to give you a look into the soul of a public servant.
So as you can see, a public servant is made up of many qualities.
Everyone can help in their own special way, but to many this is the true version of a public servant.
www.swiftpapers.com /essay/public_servant-38158.html   (177 words)

  
 public servant
This questionnaire must be filled-out by any public servant before he can ask the citizen any question.
Public servant's signature: (signed in ink).Citizen may administer an oath if he/she desires.
1,2,3,4: In order to ensure the identity of the PUBLIC SERVANT to whom the information is being given, residence and business addresses are required to serve process in a civil or criminal action upon this PUBLIC SERVANT.
home.austin.rr.com /kenroady/pq.htm   (972 words)

  
 Working Papers-Wenguan ("Lettered Official"), Gongwuyuan ("Public Servant"), and Ganbu ("Cadre"): The Politics of ...
Although gongwuyuan [public servants] are the equivalent of guan [officials], they [gongwuyuan] are different because of their set functions and responsibilities.
The two most important laws on public personnel to come out of the 1930s were the Ministry of Personnel's Gongwuyuan renyongfa (Law on the appointment of public servants) of 1933 and the Gongwuyuan kaojifa (Law on the assessment of public servants), promulgated in 1935.
The term gongwuyuan zhidu ("public servant system") was used at least as often--sometimes consciously, and often subconsciously, as the terms have never been totally standardized with respect to their denotations.
www.indiana.edu /%7Eeasc/resources/working_paper/noframe_6b_letter.htm   (8306 words)

  
 Robert Pitofsky: Public Servant and Scholar
Characteristically, one of the early actions of the new Bureau was to hold hearings on Advertising and the Public Interest, which resulted in a report and recommendations to the Commission.
I believe that the Commission's public workshops in recent years have been immensely helpful to consumers and industry, and I intend for the Commission to continue them.
John A. Howard and James Hulbert, Advertising and the Public Interest: A Staff Report to the Federal Trade Commission (1973).
www.ftc.gov /speeches/muris/muris010612.htm   (5236 words)

  
 THE PUBLIC SERVANT QUESTIONNAIRE
The PSQ is based on the requirements placed upon the government by the Privacy Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-579), an amending law to Title 5, United States Code, Section 552, and is included as Section 552a.
If a citizen chooses to cooperate with government officials who are seeking information, BEFORE questioning begins, the citizen should politely inform the government agent or agents that a prerequisite for the citizen's cooperation with "the government" is the agent¹s cooperation with the citizen.
They may need to explain to their superiors, and a court of law, and a jury, on another day, why they refused to cooperate with the reasonable questions of the highest officeholder in the land, a citizen.
radio887.com /public.html   (962 words)

  
 T.P.I. -- CRIM. 25.02 - OFFICIAL OPPRESSION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
T.P.I. Any public servant who commits the offense of official oppression is guilty of a crime.
"Public servant" means a person elected, selected, appointed, employed, or otherwise designated as one (1) of the following even if the public servant has not yet qualified for office or assumed the duties:
A public servant acts under color of office or employment if the servant acts or purports to act in an official capacity or takes advantage of such actual or purported capacity.
www.jesbeard.com /tpi25_02.htm   (292 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
(1) A person is guilty of intimidating a public servant if, by use of a threat, he attempts to influence a public servant's vote, opinion, decision, or other official action as a public servant.
     (2) For purposes of this section "public servant" shall not include jurors.
     (4) Intimidating a public servant is a class B felony.
www.leg.wa.gov /RCW/index.cfm?fuseaction=section§ion=9A.76.180   (116 words)

  
 Congressman Kevin Brady (TX08) :: Press Release :: {title}
Support and momentum for the Public Servant Retirement Protection Act grew as members from both sides of the aisle and teacher and police advocacy groups endorsed the bill that is based on treating American workers equally when it comes to collecting the pension they've earned.
Public Servant Retirement Protection Act and move it swiftly to final passage and enactment.
Many of these workers are firefighters, police officers, teachers, and other public servants who through the course of their career also earn a Social Security benefit.
www.house.gov /brady/PressArchives/2004/PSRPA_Hearing.html   (510 words)

  
 EMIRE: PORTUGAL - PUBLIC SERVANT
Employee who is appointed to "exercise, by way of an occupation, functions specific to the public service which are permanent in nature" (Article 6(2) of Decree-Law No. 184 of June 2, 1989 and Article 4(1,5) of Decree-Law No. 427 of December 7, 1989).
The particularly notable characteristic of public servants in this strict sense is the statutory nature of their employment relationship, together with stability of tenure and the opportunity of advancement in the form of a defined career.
A public servant is, by definition, integrated into the body of employees within which this career is mapped out.
www.eurofound.eu.int /emire/PORTUGAL/PUBLICSERVANT-PT.html   (207 words)

  
 Reason   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
New York City public school teachers have given a failing grade to the latest curriculum guide from the city's Education Department.
But local media outlets are reporting that the raid was triggered by Clark's efforts to photograph sensors placed on public lands around the infamous Area 51.
He's angry that citizens are being monitored by the military on public land, miles from the well-marked boundaries of the base.
reason.com /brickbats/bb-2003.shtml   (12470 words)

  
 IPF: Delivering essential services to public sector managers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
As public services become more customer-focused, there is an increasing emphasis on achieving value for money, accountability and ensuring continuous improvement; while at the same time dealing with the challenges of advances in technology, outsourcing and changes in work patterns.
To respond to these challenges public sector managers need quality and timely support to help them manage their resources.
Our clients choose IPF for many reasons, but not least because the majority of our staff are experienced public sector managers who have operated at senior level in their respective professions.
www.ipf.co.uk /media/publicservant.htm   (403 words)

  
 TheDeal.com - Public servant
Furthermore, the auditor independence rules in the act reaffirm the role of the audit firm as servant of the investing public, rather than as a professional-services firm seeking to sell its other, nonaudit, services to its audit clients.
Another central feature of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act is the adoption of new auditor-independence rules designed to prevent undue influence on auditors caused by a desire to retain nonaudit fees, and to prevent conflicts that might arise from a relationship between the company and the auditor that is too cozy.
For instance, the act prohibits a public accounting firm from performing an audit on an issuer if certain executive officers of the issuer were employed by the accountant and participated in any capacity in the audit of that issuer during the one-year period before the current audit was initiated.
www.thedeal.com /NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=TheDeal/TDDArticle/TDStandardArticle&c=TDDArticle&cid=1029435652162   (828 words)

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