[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 2, Parts 700 to 1199]
[Revised as of January 1, 2001]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR734.307]

[Page 48]
 
                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
          CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT (Continued)
 
PART 734--POLITICAL ACTIVITIES OF FEDERAL EMPLOYEES--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart C--Prohibited Activities
 
Sec. 734.307  Campaigning for a spouse or family member.

    An employee covered under this subpart who is the spouse or family 
member of either a candidate for partisan political office, candidate 
for political party office, or candidate for public office in a 
nonpartisan election, is subject to the same prohibitions as other 
employees covered under this subpart.
    Example 1: An employee who is married to a candidate for partisan 
political office may attend a fundraiser for his or her spouse, stand in 
the receiving line, sit at the head table, and urge others to vote for 
his or her spouse. However, the employee may not personally solicit, 
accept, or receive contributions of money or the paid or unpaid services 
of a business or corporation, or sell or collect money for tickets to 
the fundraiser.
    Example 2: An employee who is the daughter of a candidate for 
partisan political office may appear in a family photograph which is 
printed in a campaign flier. She may distribute fliers at a campaign 
rally as long as she does not personally solicit contributions.
    Example 3: An employee who is married to a candidate for political 
partisan political office may appear with her spouse in a political 
advertisement or a broadcast, and urge others to vote for her spouse, as 
long as the employee does not personally solicit political 
contributions.

[59 FR 48769, Sept. 23, 1994, as amended at 61 FR 35101, July 5, 1996]