A. No employee shall participate in any outside business activity or employment which conflicts with or detracts from the employee’s job performance.

B. All new employees shall be subject to a six-month probationary period unless otherwise designated by the Everett Civil Service Rules. All promotional employees shall be subject to a six-month probationary period. A new probationary employee may be terminated with no right of appeal. A promotional probationary employee may be reduced in rank to his last held permanent position with no right of appeal. No officer or employee of the city shall solicit or receive any pay, commission, money or thing of value, or derive any benefit, profit or advantage, directly or indirectly, from or by reason of any improvement, alteration or repair required by authority of the city, or any contract to which the city shall be a party, except his lawful compensation or salary as such officer or employee. No officer or employee of the city, except as otherwise provided in the Charter, shall solicit, accept or receive, directly or indirectly, from any public service corporation, or the owner of any public utility franchise in this city, any pass, frank, free ticket or any other service upon terms more favorable than those granted to the public generally. (Ord. 1572-89 § 1, 1989; Ord. 1069-84 § 9, 1984.)