A. The state ethics commission shall advise and seek to educate all persons required to perform duties under the Governmental Conduct Act of those duties. This includes advising all those persons at least annually of that act's ethical principles.
B. The state ethics commission shall seek first to ensure voluntary compliance with the provisions of the Governmental Conduct Act. A person who violates that act unintentionally or for good cause shall be given ten days' notice to correct the matter. Referrals for civil enforcement of that act shall be pursued only after efforts to secure voluntary compliance with that act have failed.
History: 1978 Comp., § 10-16-13.1, enacted by Laws 1993, ch. 46, § 35; 2019, ch. 86, § 24.
ANNOTATIONSThe 2019 amendment, effective January 1, 2020, removed from the secretary of state, and provided the state ethics commission with, the duty of advising and seeking to educate all persons required to perform duties under the Governmental Conduct Act and the duty of seeking to ensure voluntary compliance with the provisions of the Governmental Conduct Act; and in Subsections A and B, after "The", deleted "secretary of", and after "state", added "ethics commission".