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The Legislature finds and declares: (a) that no responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standards of ethical behavior by those who conduct the public business; (b) that the people have a right to expect adherence by those who conduct the public business to the principle that all officials must act with the utmost integrity, absolute impartiality and loyalty to the public interest; (c) that whereas the basis of effective democratic government is public confidence, that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.
To these ends, the Legislature enacts this chapter in order to assure the impartiality, and ethical conduct of all involved in governmental transactions and decisions. Further the Legislature finds and declares that the laws and regulations governing ethics in government have not been adequate to the changed role of government at all levels, or to the changing conditions of our society.