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Alaska Administrative Code (Last Updated: January 12, 2017) |
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Title 8. Labor and Workforce Development. |
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Part 8.1. Industrial Welfare. |
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Chapter 8.45. Compensation, Medical Benefits, and Proceedings Before the Alaska Workers' Compensation Board. |
Section 8.45.105. Code of conduct.
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(a) Nothing in this section relieves a board member's duty to comply with the provisions of AS 39.52.010 - 39.52.960 (Alaska Executive Branch Ethics Act) and 9 AAC 52.010 - 9 AAC 52.990. A board member holds office as a public trust, and an effort to benefit from a personal or financial interest through official action is a violation of that trust. A board member is drawn from society and cannot and should not be without personal and financial interests in the decisions and policies of government. An individual who serves as a board member retains rights to interests of a personal or financial nature. Standards of ethical conduct for a board member distinguish between those minor and inconsequential conflicts that are unavoidable in a free society, and those conflicts of interests that are substantial and material. (b) The provisions of this section do not prevent a board member from following other independent pursuits, if those pursuits do not interfere with the full and faithful discharge of a board member's public duties and responsibilities under AS 23.30 and this chapter. (c) The recusal of a board panel member for a conflict of interest under the procedures set out in 8 AAC 45.106 may occur only if the recusal is based on clear and convincing evidence that the board panel member (1) has a conflict of interest that is substantial and material; or (2) shows actual bias or prejudgment. (d) The recusal of a board panel member to avoid impropriety or the appearance of impropriety under the procedures set out in 8 AAC 45.106 may occur only if the recusal is based on clear and convincing evidence that the board panel member (1) has a personal or financial interest that is substantial and material; or (2) shows actual bias or prejudgment. (e) Unethical conduct is prohibited, but there is no substantial impropriety or substantial appearance of impropriety if, as to a specific matter, the standards of AS 39.52.110(b) would permit participation.
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23.30.005;44.31.020