ORD 1998-07 - Amend Personnel Rules - Nepotism 02-24-1998ORDINANCE 98 -07
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS, AMENDING CHAPTER 4, APPOINTMENTS,
TRANSFERS, PROMOTIONS, OF THE PERSONNEL RULES OF THE
CITY OF HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS, TO AMEND THE NEPOTISM RULES;
AND MAKING OTHER FINDINGS AND PROVISIONS RELATED
THERETO.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS, THAT:
SECTION 1. Chapter 4, "APPOINTMENTS, TRANSFERS, PROMOTIONS," of the City
of Huntsville's Personnel Rules, is amended by adopting an amended Section
4, Nepotism, Fraternization, and Romantic Relationships between
Employees, that shall read:
Section 4. Nepotism. Fraternization, and Romantic Relationships between Employees.
a. No employee may directly or indirectly appoint to City service, supervise, or be supervised by
a member of his or her immediate family. Immediate family means a person related in the
second degree by affinity (marriage) or in third degree by consanguinity (blood). The City
Manager and the directors may not appoint any person to a division that the person has a
relative within the second degree by affinity or within the third degree by consanguinity.
b. The City Manager may apply the nepotism prohibition in other organizational and /or personal
relationships when failure to do so would be detrimental to the City.
C. The City Manager may not appoint any person related in the second degree by affinity or in
the third degree by consanguinity to the City Manager, to any office, position, clerkship or other
service of the City, except where authorized by Texas law.
See City Charter 5 14.10; Employee Nepotism Chart Attached; Texas Government Code chapter 573.
SECTION 2. This ordinance shall take effect from and after its adoption by City Council.
APPROVED this 24th day of February, 1998.
THE CITY OF HUNTSVILLE
William B. Green, Mayor
ATTEST:
Danna Welter, City Secretary
APPROVED:
Scda Bounds, City Attorney
CITY OF HUNTSVILLE
EMPLOYEE NEPOTISM CHART
PROHIBITED RELATIONSHIPS INCLUDE:
1ST DEGREE BY CONSANGUINITY
Parents
Children
Brothers and sisters
1ST DEGREE BY AFFINITY
Spouse
Spouse's parents
Spouse's children
Spouse's brothers and sisters
Stepparents
Stepchildren
2ND DEGREE BY CONSANGUINITY
Grandparents
Grandchildren
Aunts and uncles
First cousins
Nieces and nephews
2ND DEGREE BY AFFINITY
Spouse's grandparents
Spouse's grandchildren
Spouse's aunts and uncles
Spouse's first cousins
Spouse's nieces and nephews
3RD DEGREE BY CONSANGUINITY ONLY
{Does not include spouses)
Great grandparents
Great grandchildren
Great aunts and uncles
Second cousins (child of first cousin)
Great nieces and nephews
RELATIONSHIPS NOT PROHIBITED INCLUDE 3RD DEGREE BY AFFINITY
Spouse's great grandparents
Spouse's great grandchildren
Spouse's great aunts and uncles
Spouse's second cousins
Spouse's great nieces and nephews
NOTE: A husband or wife is related by affinity only to those who are related to the other spouse by
consanguinity. For example, the rule prohibits an employee from supervising the employee's spouse's first
cousin, but not the spouse of the employee's first cousin.