2.16.290 Political activity of municipal officer or employee.
A. A city officer or employee may not:
1. Engage in political campaigning or solicit political campaign contributions during hours of employment;
2. Use city equipment while engaged in political activity;
3. Directly or indirectly coerce, command, or advise another city officer or employee to pay, lend, or contribute part of the officer’s or employee’s salary or compensation, or anything else of value to a political party, committee, organization, agency, or person for political purposes; or
4. Attempt to make another officer’s or employee’s personnel status dependent on the officer’s or employee’s support or lack of support of a political party, affiliation, opinion, committee, organization, agency, or person engaged in political activity.
B. A city officer or employee may not be a candidate for general election to hold the public office of mayor or council member in Midvale City unless the employee takes a leave of absence or submits a resignation from city employment beginning the day after the primary election in accordance with Section 10-3-1108 of the Utah Code Annotated.
C. Nothing contained in this section interferes with the right of the employee to become a member of a political club or organization, to attend political meetings, to express an opinion on all political subjects and to enjoy freedom from interference in voting or to contribute freely to political causes.
D. The city may not deny employment to an applicant or influence an officer’s or employee’s employment, promotion, disciplinary action, demotion, or dismissal on the basis of the partisan political activity, political opinion, or political affiliation of the applicant, officer, or employee. (Ord. 2023-07 § 1 (Att. A); Ord. 2/16/2010O-2 § 1 (Exh. A (part)))