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PROPOSED ORDINANCE AMENDMENT
AN AMENDMENT TO THE ORDINANCE LIMITING CONTRIBUTIONS TO CANDIDATES AND ELECTED OFFICIALS
BE IT ORDAINED, by the Cook County Board of Commissioners, that Chapter 2 - Administration, Article VII - Ethics, Division 2 - Code of Ethical Conduct, Section 2-585 - Limitations of contributions to candidates and elected officials of the Cook County Code is hereby amended as Follows:
Sec. 2-585. - Limitations of contributions to candidates and elected officials.
(a) No person shall make contributions exceeding the limits established by the Election Code, 10 ILCS 5/9-1 et seq., when making contributions to any of the following elected officials or candidates for such office: County Board President; Cook County Commissioner; Cook County State's Attorney; Cook County Clerk of the Circuit Court; Cook County Assessor; Cook County Treasurer; Cook County Board of Review Commissioner; Cook County Sheriff, Cook County Clerk; and Cook County Recorder of Deeds except as otherwise provided in Section 2-585.
(b) No person who does business with the County or who has done business with the County within the preceding four years; or is seeking to do business with the County; or is a person required to register as a lobbyist with the County; or who has sought official action by the County within the preceding four years, or is an officer, director or partner of a firm, contracted by the County to act as financial counsel, bond counsel, underwriter's counsel, legal counsel, or financial manager for the issuance of any bond and directly working on said bond transaction; or firm, officers, directors or partners, contracted by the County to provide financial audits of County finances and directly working on said contract shall make contributions in an aggregate amount exceeding $750.00:
(1) To any candidate for County office or elected County official during a single candidacy; or
(2) To any elected official of the government of the County during an...
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