130051.20
. (a) (1) No construction company, engineering firm,
consultant, legal firm, or any company, vendor, or business entity
seeking a contract with the Los Angeles County Metropolitan
Transportation Authority shall give to a member, alternate member, or
employee of the authority, or to any member of their immediate
families, a contribution of over ten dollars ($10) in value or
amount. A "contribution" includes contributions to candidates or
their committees in any federal, state, or local election.
(2) Neither the owner, an employee, or any member of their
immediate families, of any construction company, engineering firm,
consultant, legal firm, or any company, vendor, or business entity
seeking a contract with the authority shall make a contribution of
over ten dollars ($10) in value or amount to a member, alternate
member, or employee of the authority, or to any member of their
immediate families.
(3) No member, alternate member, or employee of the authority, or
member of their immediate families, shall accept, solicit, or direct
a contribution of over ten dollars ($10) in value or amount from any
construction company, engineering firm, consultant, legal firm, or
any company, vendor, or business entity seeking a contract with the
authority.
(4) No member, alternate member, or employee of the authority
shall make or participate in, or use his or her official position to
influence, a contract decision if the member, alternate member, or
employee has knowingly accepted a contribution of over ten dollars
($10) in value in the past four years from a participant, or its
agent, involved in the contract decision.
(5) No member, alternate member, or employee of the authority, or
member of their immediate families shall accept, solicit, or direct a
contribution of over ten dollars ($10) in value or amount from a
construction company, engineering firm, consultant, legal firm, or
any company, vendor, or business entity that has contracted with the
authority in the preceding four years.
(b) A member, alternate member, or employee of the authority who
has participated as a decisionmaker in the preparation, evaluation,
award, or implementation of a contract and who leaves the authority
shall not, within three years of leaving the authority, accept
employment with any company, vendor, or business entity that was
awarded a contract as a result of his or her participation,
evaluation, award, or implementation of that contract.