Sec. 19a.02.01.03. Exceptions

Subject to Regulation .04 of this chapter, the Commission may grant an official or employee an exception to Regulation .02 of this chapter for specific outside employment if:

A. The employee's or official's State duties do not significantly impact on the outside employer or a contract or proposed contract between the outside employer and the official’s or employee’s governmental unit;

B. The employee or official is not directly supervised by a person who has duties that significantly impact on the outside employer or the contract or proposed contract;

C. The official or employee does not supervise a person who has duties that significantly impact on the outside employer or the contract or proposed contract;

D. The employee or official is not affiliated with the specific unit within the employee’s or official’s governmental unit that exercises authority over the outside employer or is involved in contracts with the outside employer;

E. The employee or official has complied with relevant other sections of the Ethics Law relating to the matters involved;

F. The employee's or official's outside employment involves no substantive, non-ministerial duties significantly relating to the official’s or employee’s governmental unit’s authority over the outside employer;

G. The employee's or official's outside employment does not involve negotiating or carrying out a contract involving the outside employer and the official’s or employee’s governmental unit, other than contracts involving broad reimbursement payments that are based on a generally applicable standard and that do not involve substantial negotiation or discretion;

H. The employee's or official's private compensation is not directly funded by the State contract or contracts; and

I. The Commission determines that the employee's or official's specific employment circumstances do not otherwise raise a conflict of interest or appearance of conflict as contemplated by General Provisions Article, §§5-102 and 5-502, Annotated Code of Maryland.