This ethics article discusses a situation in which the city manager was concerned about the implications of a settling an employee's sexual harassment claim.

This City of Santa Clara, California (2008 U.S. Census Estimate population: 110,200) code of ethics outlines the ethics policy for city employees and volunteers. 

This code from the City of San Luis Obispo, California  (2008 U.S. Census Estimate population: 43,636) outlines the value statement for city employee daily activity.

The assistant county manager knew that he should not purchase a ticket to the county executive’s birthday party, as it was clearly a fund-raising event(...)