No legislator or public officer or employee shall use or disclose confidential information acquired by virtue of the legislator's or public officer's or employee's position with a state agency or local government agency for the legislator's, public officer's or employee's or another's private gain.
History: 1953 Comp., § 5-12-6, enacted by Laws 1967, ch. 306, § 6; 1993, ch. 46, § 30; 2007, ch. 362, § 4; 2011, ch. 138, § 7.
ANNOTATIONSThe 2011 amendment, effective July 1, 2011, prohibited legislators and public officers and employees from disclosing confidential information acquired from their position with a local government agency.
The 2007 amendment, effective July 1, 2007, prohibited the disclosure of confidential information.
The 1993 amendment, effective July 1, 1993, inserted "public officer".