Senate regulations forbid senators to take gifts valued at more than $50, except under certain carefully delineated circumstances, and require that any gratuities be reported on a senator's financial disclosure forms.
As part of the standard procedure of the research centre, and in adherence to ethics requirements, researchers and field staff from the research centre are not authorized to offer any gratuities to avoid any perception of coercion to participate in research.
Under House ethics rules, a gift is defined as any gratuity, favor, discount, entertainment, hospitality, loan, forbearance or other item having monetary value.
She said the situation may depend on how the merchant's point-of-sale system is set up. "Some restaurants may be set up where they obtain an authorization on the card for an amount up to 20 percent more than the total service bill to cover any gratuity that may be added".
Meredith McGehee, policy director for the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center in Washington, said she was not familiar with the particulars of Mr. Rangel's accommodations, but said that under House ethics rules, a gift is defined as any "gratuity, favor, discount, entertainment, hospitality, loan, forbearance, or other item having monetary value".
We work long hours and get coffee stains on our clothes," says MW. Her index of links took me to Bitter Waitress (bitterwaitress.com) which contains "The Shitty Tipper Database!", where the matter was laid to rest by this comprehensive definition: "a shitty tip is... any gratuity under 17%".
The detailed disclaimer could be Legends' attempt to get in better line with a New York law that says no employer can "retain any part of a gratuity or of any charge purported to be a gratuity for an employee".
A New York law says that no employer can "retain any part of a gratuity or of any charge purported to be a gratuity for an employee," and a 2008 appeals court ruling involving World Yacht found that the dining cruise company had illegally withheld tips from servers under a similar "service fee" arrangement.
Most top-end restaurants automatically add 10 percent to the bill; any additional gratuity is at the diner's discretion.
It included all meals, snacks, mini-bar, complimentary drinks any time of day, electric bicycles, a personal butler, and all gratuities.
The government form known as a Customs declaration bears in red ink across its bottom the notice that any voyager offering a gratuity to a baggage inspector is guilty of a crime, punishable by something less than death.
