§ 5b. Conflicts of interest
(a) A person in the employ of or holding any official relation to any company subject to the supervision of the Board or the Agency, or engaged in the management of a company that is subject to the supervision of the Board or Agency, or owning stock, bonds, or other securities in the company, or who is in any manner connected with the operation of a company that is subject to the supervision of the Board or Agency in this State, shall not be a member or Executive Secretary of the Board or Secretary of Transportation.
(b) No person holding the office of member, Executive Secretary of the Board, or Secretary of Transportation, either personally or in connection with a partner or agent, may:
(1) render professional service for or against or make or perform any business contract with any company subject to Board or Agency supervision, relating to the business of the company, except contracts made with them as common carriers or in the regular course of public service; or
(2) directly or indirectly receive from a company subject to Board or Agency supervision any commission, present, or reward. (Added 1985, No. 269 (Adj. Sess.), § 1.)
Structure Vermont Statutes
Chapter 1 - State Highway Law; General Transportation Provisions
§ 3. Transportation Board; creation; members
§ 4. Transportation Board; meetings; quorum; compensation
§ 5. Transportation Board; powers and duties
§ 6. Other boards, commissions, councils, and committees
§ 7. Secretary; powers and duties
§ 7a. Hearing before Secretary
§ 8. Commissioner of Motor Vehicles; appointment; duties and powers
§ 9. Divisions; general provisions
§ 10a. Procurement of engineering and design services through competitive negotiation
§ 10b. Statement of policy; general
§ 10c. Statement of policy; highways and bridges
§ 10d. Statement of policy; airports
§ 10e. Statement of policy; railroads
§ 10f. Statement of policy; public transportation
§ 10g. Annual report; Transportation Program; advancements, cancellations, and delays
§ 10h. Cooperative interstate agreement
§ 10i. Transportation planning process
§ 10j. Intermodal and multimodal transportation facilities; project planning criteria
§ 10k. Statement of policy; asset management; sale of State property
§ 10l. Agency cooperation with regional planning commissions
§ 10m. Statement of policy; sustainable building components; annual report
§ 11a. Transportation funds appropriated for the Department of Public Safety
§ 11b. Town Highway Revolving Fund
§ 11c. Deposit in escrow account of amounts retained from progress payments
§ 11d. Funds for rehabilitation of historic bridges
§ 11f. Transportation Infrastructure Bond Fund
§ 12. Appropriations to Agency of Transportation
§ 12a. Transportation Program provided to the Committees on Transportation
§ 12b. Joint Transportation Oversight Committee
§ 15. Changes in the State highway system
§ 15a. Border crossings; cooperation with federal government
§ 16. Duties of Secretary in unorganized towns and gores
§ 17. Contracts; labor preference
§ 19. Small business enterprises
§ 20. Small claims for injury or damage
§ 21. Picnic areas and parking places
§ 23. Rights of action; notice
§ 26. Purchase and sale of property
§ 30. Issue of notes for State highway construction
§ 31. Abandonment of project; reconveyance
§ 32. Assumed width of right-of-way
§ 33. Survey of existing highways; damages
§ 35. Entrance upon lands for survey
§ 37. Impoundments of water created by beaver
§ 38. Transportation Alternatives Grant Program
§ 39. Agency of Transportation assistance with municipal salt sheds