(2) If a political subdivision or an agency adopts by ordinance or rule additional or more stringent standards of conduct and disclosure requirements pursuant to subsection (1), any noncriminal complaint procedure must:
(b) Require a complaint to be based upon personal knowledge or information other than hearsay.
(c) Prohibit the initiation of a complaint or investigation by the governing body of the political subdivision, agency, or any entity created to enforce the standards.
(d) Include a provision establishing a process for the recovery of costs and attorney fees for public officers, public employees, or candidates for public office against a person found by the governing body of the political subdivision, agency, or entity created to enforce the standards to have filed the complaint with a malicious intent to injure the reputation of such officer, employee, or candidate by filing the complaint with knowledge that the complaint contains one or more false allegations or with reckless disregard for whether the complaint contains false allegations of fact material to a violation.
