[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: 5CFR734.404]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
          CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT (Continued)
 
PART 734--POLITICAL ACTIVITIES OF FEDERAL EMPLOYEES--Table of Contents
 
         Subpart D--Employees in Certain Agencies and Positions
 
Sec. 734.404  Participation in political organizations.

    (a) Each employee covered under this subpart retains the right to:
    (1) Participate in the nonpartisan activities of a civic, community, 
social, labor, or professional organization, or of a similar 
organization;
    (2) Be a member of a political party or other partisan political 
group and participate in its activities to the extent consistent with 
other Federal law;
    (3) Attend a political convention, rally, fund-raising function, or 
other political gathering; and
    (4) Make a financial contribution to a political party, partisan 
political group, or to the campaign committee of a candidate for 
partisan political office.
    (b) Subject to the provisions in Sec. 734.406, an employee covered 
under this subpart may make a financial contribution to a political 
action committee through a voluntary allotment made under 
Sec. 550.311(b) of this chapter if the head of the employee's agency 
permits agency employees to make

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such allotments to political action committees.
    (c) An employee who is covered under this subpart and is a payroll 
official in an agency where employees are permitted to make allotments 
to political action committees may process the completed direct deposit 
forms for voluntary allotments which have been made to such committees 
under Sec. 550.311(b) of this chapter.
    Example 1: An employee, or a noncareer SES employee who is subject 
to subpart D of part 734, may attend a political convention or rally 
solely as a spectator. However, the employee and noncareer SES employee 
may not participate in demonstrations or parades which are sponsored by 
a political party, a partisan political group, or an individual who is 
running for nomination to be a candidate for partisan political office.
    Example 2: An employee may attend a political party's annual 
barbecue, but he or she may not organize, distribute invitations to, or 
sell tickets to the barbecue.
    Example 3: An employee who desires to contribute to a political 
action committee through an allotment personally may obtain blank direct 
deposit forms from his or her payroll office. The employee may not 
complete the direct deposit form while he or she is on duty, on Federal 
property, or in a Federally owned or leased vehicle. The employee also 
may not personally deliver his or her completed direct deposit form, or 
the completed direct deposit form of another employee, to his or her 
payroll office. However, the employee may mail the completed form to his 
or her agency payroll office.

[61 FR 35101, July 5, 1996]