Sec. 2-7. Prohibitions.

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Neither the Auditor General nor any Deputy Auditor General may:

(a)become a candidate for any elective public office;

(b)hold any other public office, by appointment or otherwise, except for appointments on governmental advisory boards or study commissions or as otherwise expressly authorized by law or by joint resolution or joint rule of the General Assembly;

(c)hold any other employment;

(d)be actively involved in the affairs of any political party;

(e)actively participate in any political campaign for any public office created by the Constitution or by any statute of the State of Illinois;

(f)actively participate in any campaign relating to a referendum or public question concerning the Constitution, the government of the State of Illinois or any local or private agency audited by the office of Auditor General during the preceding 4 years;

(g)hold any legal, equitable, creditor or debt interest in any partnership, firm or other entity which contracts with the office of Auditor General during his term or tenure;

(h)have any direct or indirect financial or economic interest in the transactions of any agency audited by the office of Auditor General during his term or tenure, but written disclosure of any such interest to the Commission and formal disqualification from participation in any post audit involving that agency may, with the approval of the Commission, constitute compliance with this paragraph if the interest is either insubstantial or results directly from an interest held before becoming Auditor General or Deputy Auditor General;

(i)conduct or supervise a post audit of any agency for which he was responsible or by which he was employed or with which he contracted during the preceding 4 years;

(j)make or report publicly any charges of nonfeasance or malfeasance in office of any public official or illegal conduct of any person unless he knows of reasonable grounds, based on accepted auditing and accounting standards, for such charges.