2.08.010 Name, purpose and scope.
(a) This Chapter shall be called the þRevolving Door Ordinance.þ It is intended to impose restrictions on
activities of specified City employees or officials after their term of employment or office has ceased.
(b) This Chapter is designed to prohibit or limit the designated former City employees or officials from
representing any party or engaging in lobbying activities on behalf of any party before the City Council, its boards and
commissions, or where applicable, the Rent Control Board, in any matter in which the former City employee or official
participated personally and substantially during his or her term of employment or office. Certain former City employees
and designated City officials would be barred from such representation or lobbying activities whether compensated or not,
for a period of two (2) years following termination of employment or office.
(c) In addition, this chapter would prohibit the designated former City employees and officials from
engaging in any compensated lobbying or advocacy activities before specified bodies for a period of two (2) years
following termination of employment or office.
(d) Finally, this chapter would also prohibit or restrict specified City officials from accepting employment
with any organization or entity which either receives more than fifty percent (50%) of its funding from the City of Santa
Monica or is governed by a board of directors fifty percent (50%) or more of whose members are appointed by action of
the City Council. (Prior code § 2150; amended by Ord. No. 1517CCS, adopted 3/13/90; Ord. No. 1670CCS § 1 (part),
adopted 2/23/93)