[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 20, Volume 3]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 20CFR641.321]

[Page 377-378]
 
                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS
 
 CHAPTER V--EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
 
PART 641--SENIOR COMMUNITY SERVICE EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
                       Subpart C--Grant Operations
 
Sec. 641.321  Political activities.

    (a) General. No project under title V of the OAA or this part may 
involve political activities.
    (1) No enrollee or staff person may be permitted to engage in 
partisan or nonpartisan political activities during hours for which they 
are paid with SCSEP funds.

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    (2) No enrollee or staff person, at any time, may be permitted to 
engage in partisan political activities in which such enrollee or staff 
person represents himself or herself as a spokesperson of the SCSEP 
program.
    (3) No enrollee may be employed or out-stationed in the office of a 
Member of Congress, a State or local legislator, or on any staff of a 
legislative committee.
    (4) No enrollee may be employed or out-stationed in the immediate 
office of any elected chief executive officer(s) of a State or unit of 
general government, except that:
    (i) Units of local government may serve as host-agencies for 
enrollees in such positions, provided that such assignments are 
nonpolitical; and
    (ii) Where assignments are technically in such offices, such 
assignments actually are program activities not in any way involved in 
political functions.
    (5) No enrollee may be assigned to perform political activities in 
the offices of other elected officials. However, placement of enrollees 
in such nonpolitical assignments within the offices of such elected 
officials is permissible, provided that grantees develop safeguards to 
ensure that enrollees placed in these assignments are not involved in 
political activities. These safeguards shall be described in the grant 
agreement and shall be subject to review and monitoring by the grantee 
and the Department.
    (b) Hatch Act. (1) State and local employees governed by 5 U.S.C. 
chapter 15 shall comply with the Hatch Act provisions as interpreted and 
applied by the Office of the Special Counsel.
    (2) Each project subject to 5 U.S.C. chapter 15 shall display a 
notice and shall make available to each person associated with such 
project a written explanation, clarifying the law with respect to 
allowable and unallowable political activities under 5 U.S.C. chapter 15 
which are applicable to the project and each category of individuals 
associated with such project. This notice, which shall have the approval 
of the Department, shall contain the telephone number and address of the 
DOL Inspector General. [Section 502(b)(1)(P) of the OAA.] Enforcement of 
the Hatch Act shall be as provided at 5 U.S.C. chapter 15.