[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR310.103]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
 
PART 310--EMPLOYMENT OF RELATIVES--Table of Contents
 
         Subpart A--Restrictions on the Employment of Relatives
 
Sec. 310.103  Restrictions.

    (a) A public official shall not advocate one of his relatives for 
appointment, employment, promotion, or advancement to a position in his 
agency or in an agency over which he exercises jurisdiction or control.
    (b) A public official shall not appoint, employ, promote, or advance 
to a position in his agency or in an agency over which he exercises 
jurisdiction or control:
    (1) One of his relatives; or
    (2) The relative of a public official of his agency, or of a public 
official who exercises jurisdiction or control over his agency, if the 
public official has advocated the appointment, employment, promotion, or 
advancement of that relative.
    (c) For the purpose of this section, a public official who 
recommends a relative, or refers a relative for consideration by a 
public official standing lower in the chain of command, for appointment, 
employment, promotion, or advancement is deemed to have advocated the 
appointment, employment, promotion, or advancement of the relative.
    (d) This section does not prohibit the appointment in the 
competitive service of a preference eligible if (1) his name is within 
reach for selection from an appropriate certificate of eligibles and (2) 
an alternative selection cannot be made from the certificate without 
passing over the preference eligible and selecting an individual who is 
not a preference eligible.