§ 2-7-71. DEFINITIONS.

In this article:

(1)

CITY OFFICIAL means the mayor, members of the city council and their aides, Municipal Court Judges (including Substitute Judges), city manager, Assistant city managers, city clerk, Deputy city clerks, city attorney, Deputy city attorneys, Treasurer, Comptroller, City Auditor, Purchasing Officer, the initial and subsequent commissioners of the Conventions and Visitors Commission, all department heads, deputy department heads, and where no deputy department head serves, the first principal assistant of such department, and spouses of each, and spouses of and the members of the City boards and commissions described in Section 2-7-72(C) ( Reports ). City appointees to other governmental bodies may be required to file financial information statements without being deemed City officials under Section 2-7-2 ( Definitions ).

(2)

SPOUSE of a City official includes a domestic partner, which means an individual who lives in the same household and shares common resources of life in a close, personal, intimate relationship with the City official if under Texas law the individual would not be prevented from marrying the City official on account of age, consanguinity, or prior undissolved marriage to another. A domestic partner may be of the same, or opposite, gender as the City official.

Source: 1992 Code Section 2-3-71; Ord. 031204-9; Ord. 031211-11; Ord. 20071129-011.