Engineer Doe Planning Board Member Self-Designed Plan Voting Recusal
O · Obligation
Individual
http://proethica.org/ontology/case/143#Engineer_Doe_Planning_Board_Member_Self-Designed_Plan_Voting_Recusal
Properties
Instance of
PlanningBoardMemberSelf-DesignedPlanVotingRecusalObligation
http://proethica.org/ontology/intermediate#PlanningBoardMemberSelf-DesignedPlanVotingRecusalObligation
Case context
Engineer Doe served as a county planning board member and voted on subdivision plans he had personally designed as a private consultant, creating a direct financial conflict of interest that eliminated the independent judgment the board role required.
Compliance status
unmet
Confidence
0.95
Importance
high
Obligated party
Engineer Doe
Obligation statement
Engineer Doe, as a member of the county planning board, was obligated to recuse himself from voting on or participating in the approval of subdivision plans that he personally prepared in his private consulting capacity.
Temporal scope
At the time of planning board deliberation and vote on the subdivision plans
Relationships
competesWith
Abstention-Conditioned Commission Member Private Services Permissibility John Doe Planning Board
defeasibleUnder
Doe Board Member Private Plan Submission Conflict
prevailsOver
Abstention-Conditioned Commission Member Private Services Permissibility John Doe Planning Board
derivedFromPrinciple
Dual-Role Public-Private Conflict Prohibition Invoked in Engineer Doe Case
Source Evidence
Source text
In his capacity as an engineer in private practice he prepared plans for approval by a governmental body on which he served as a member.
Text references
In his capacity as an engineer in private practice he prepared plans for approval by a governmental body on which he served as a member.
It is abundantly clear that Engineer Doe's operations were in direct conflict with Section 8(b) of the Code.
TTL
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case143:Engineer_Doe_Planning_Board_Member_Self-Designed_Plan_Voting_Recusal a proeth:PlanningBoardMemberSelf-DesignedPlanVotingRecusalObligation,
owl:NamedIndividual ;
rdfs:label "Engineer Doe Planning Board Member Self-Designed Plan Voting Recusal" ;
proeth-core:competesWith case143:Abstention-Conditioned_Commission_Member_Private_Services_Permissibility_John_Doe_Planning_Board ;
proeth-core:defeasibleUnder case143:Doe_Board_Member_Private_Plan_Submission_Conflict ;
proeth-core:prevailsOver case143:Abstention-Conditioned_Commission_Member_Private_Services_Permissibility_John_Doe_Planning_Board ;
proeth:casecontext "Engineer Doe served as a county planning board member and voted on subdivision plans he had personally designed as a private consultant, creating a direct financial conflict of interest that eliminated the independent judgment the board role required." ;
proeth:compliancestatus "unmet" ;
proeth:conceptCategory "Obligation" ;
proeth:confidence "0.95" ;
proeth:derivedFromPrinciple case143:Dual-Role_Public-Private_Conflict_Prohibition_Invoked_in_Engineer_Doe_Case ;
proeth:discoveredincase "143" ;
proeth:discoveredinpass "2" ;
proeth:discoveredinsection "discussion" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredat "2026-03-02T13:43:59.413008+00:00" ;
proeth:firstdiscoveredincase "143" ;
proeth:generatedattime "2026-03-02T13:43:59.413008+00:00" ;
proeth:importance "high" ;
proeth:obligatedparty "Engineer Doe" ;
proeth:obligationclass "Planning Board Member Self-Designed Plan Voting Recusal Obligation" ;
proeth:obligationstatement "Engineer Doe, as a member of the county planning board, was obligated to recuse himself from voting on or participating in the approval of subdivision plans that he personally prepared in his private consulting capacity." ;
proeth:sourcetext "In his capacity as an engineer in private practice he prepared plans for approval by a governmental body on which he served as a member." ;
proeth:temporalscope "At the time of planning board deliberation and vote on the subdivision plans" ;
proeth:textreferences "In his capacity as an engineer in private practice he prepared plans for approval by a governmental body on which he served as a member.",
"It is abundantly clear that Engineer Doe's operations were in direct conflict with Section 8(b) of the Code." ;
proeth:wasattributedto "Case 143 Extraction" ;
prov:generatedAtTime "2026-03-02T13:52:09.583872"^^xsd:dateTime ;
prov:wasGeneratedBy "ProEthica Case 143 Extraction" .
Metadata
Extraction details
Discovered in case
143
Discovered in pass
2
Discovered in section
discussion
First discovered
2026-03-02T13:43:59.413008+00:00
First case
143
Generated
2026-03-02T13:43:59.413008+00:00
Attributed to
Case 143 Extraction
Generated
2026-03-02T13:52:09.583872
Generated by
ProEthica Case 143 Extraction