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with the proper performance of their official duties. Utility employees must scrupulously <br />avoid any activities that suggest a conflict of interest between their private interests and <br />Utility responsibilities. <br />Employees shall not accept, either directly or indirectly, any money, property, gift, <br />gratuity, reward, loan, fee, discount, or special consideration or special accommodation <br />from any vendor or potential vendor to the Utility or the City of Elk River, or that arises <br />from or is offered because of their employment or any activity connected with their <br />employment with the Utility. <br />7. WHISTLEBLOWERS <br />Pursuant to Minn. Stat. § 181.932, Elk River Municipal Utilities will not discharge, <br />discipline, threaten, or otherwise discriminate against, or penalize an employee regarding <br />the employee's compensation, terms, conditions, location, or privileges of employment <br />because: <br />a. The employee, or a person acting on behalf of any employee, in good faith, <br />reports a violation or suspected violation of any federal or state law or rule <br />adopted pursuant to law to the Utility or to any governmental body or law <br />enforcement official; <br />b. The employee is requested by a public body or office to participate in an <br />investigation, hearing, inquiry; or <br />c. The employee refuses the Utility's order to perform an action that the <br />employee has an objective basis in fact to believe violates any State or <br />Federal law or rule regulation adopted pursuant to law and the employee <br />informs the Utility that the order is being refused for that reason. <br />No Utility official or law enforcement official will disclose, or cause to disclose the <br />identity of any employee making a report or providing information under this policy <br />without the employee's consent unless the investigator determines that disclosure is <br />necessary for prosecution, the employee will be informed prior to the disclosure. <br />Employees shall not make any statements or disclosures pursuant to this section knowing <br />that they are false or that they are in reckless disregard of the truth. This section does not <br />permit disclosures that would violate federal or state law or diminish or impair the right <br />of any person to the continued protection of confidentiality or communications provided <br />by common law. <br />8. WEAPONS PROHIBITED <br />Elk River Municipal Utilities prohibit all employees from carrying or possessing firearms <br />or other weapons while acting in the course and scope of their employment for the <br />Utility. Carrying or possessing firearms or weapons in Utility vehicles is also prohibited. <br />9 <br />