WILLIAM DONALD SCHAEFER, Governor

(2) WRITING AN ARTICLE, OTHER THAN A BOOK, THAT HAS
BEEN OR IS INTENDED TO BE PUBLISHED.

3-106.

(a)  An official or employee may not solicit any gift. No
official or employee may knowingly accept any gift, directly or
indirectly, from any person whom the official or employee knows
or has reason to know:

(1)  Is doing or seeking to do business of any kind
with his THE OFFICIAL'S OR EMPLOYEE'S agency;

(2)  Is engaged in activities which are regulated or
controlled by his THE OFFICIAL'S OR EMPLOYEE'S agency;

(3)  Has financial interests which may be
substantially and materially affected, in a manner
distinguishable from the public generally, by the performance or
nonperformance of his THE OFFICIAL'S OR EMPLOYEE'S official duty;
or

(4)  Is a registrant with respect to matters within
his THE OFFICIAL'S OR EMPLOYEE'S jurisdiction.

(b)   [Unless] EXCEPT AS PROVIDED IN § 3-106.1 OF THIS
ARTICLE, UNLESS a gift of any of the following would tend to
impair the impartiality and the independence of judgment of the
official or employee receiving it or, if of significant value,
would give the appearance of doing so, or, if of significant
value, the recipient official or employee believes, or has reason
to believe, that it is designed to do so, subsection (a) does not
apply to:

(1)  Meals and beverages that are received by the
recipient official or employee in the presence of the donor or
sponsoring entity;

(2)  Ceremonial gifts or awards which have
insignificant monetary value;

(3)  Unsolicited gifts of nominal value or trivial
items of informational value;

(4)  Reasonable expenses for food, travel, lodging,
and scheduled entertainment of the official or employee for a
meeting which is given in return for participation in a panel or
speaking engagement at the meeting;

(5)  Gifts of tickets or free admission extended to an
elected constitutional officer to attend professional or
intercollegiate sporting events or charitable, cultural, or

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