2.08.050 Exemptions.
The prohibitions contained in Sections 2.08.030 and 2.08.040 shall not apply:
(a) To appearances or communications by former City employees or officials concerning matters of a
personal or individual nature, such as obtaining a business license.
(b) To prevent a former City employee or official from making or providing a statement based upon the
former City employee's or official's own special knowledge in the particular area that is the subject of the statement,
provided that no compensation is thereby received other than that regularly provided for by law or regulation for witnesses.
(c) To prevent a former City employee or official from giving a testimony under oath, or from making
statements required to be made under penalty of perjury.
(d) To prevent former Deputy City Attorneys in the Criminal or Civil Divisions of the City Attorney's
Office, Staff Attorneys or Hearing Examiners of the Rent Control Board, or City officials who are attorneys, from serving
as representatives of defendants in criminal proceedings, where the offense(s) for which such representation is made
occurred at least three (3) months following termination of the former employee's employment or expiration of the former
City official's term of office with the City. (Prior code § 2154; amended by Ord. No. 1517CCS, adopted 3/13/90; Ord.
No. 1670CCS § 1 (part), adopted 2/23/93)