[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 2]
[Revised as of January 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR734.406]

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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. 734.406  Participation in political activities while on duty, in 
uniform, in any room or building occupied in the discharge of official 
duties, or using a Federal vehicle; prohibition.

    (a) An employee covered under this subpart may not participate in 
political activities:
    (1) While he or she is on duty;
    (2) While he or she is wearing a uniform, badge, or insignia that 
identifies the employing agency or instrumentality or the position of 
the employee;
    (3) While he or she is in any room or building occupied in the 
discharge of official duties by an individual employed or holding office 
in the Government of the United States or any agency or instrumentality 
thereof; or
    (4) While using a Government-owned or leased vehicle or while using 
a privately owned vehicle in the discharge of official duties.
    (b) [Reserved]
    Example 1: An employee who uses his or her privately owned vehicle 
on a recurrent basis for official business may place a bumper sticker on 
the vehicle, as long as he or she covers the bumper sticker while the 
vehicle is being used for official duties.
    Example 2: An employee who uses his or her privately owned vehicle 
on official business, must cover any partisan political bumper sticker 
while the vehicle is being used for official duties, if the vehicle is 
clearly identified as being on official business.
    Example 3: An employee or career SES employee who uses his or her 
privately owned vehicle only on an occasional basis to drive to another 
Federal agency for a meeting, or to take a training course, if not 
required to cover a partisan political bumper sticker on his or her 
vehicle.
    Example 4: An employee may not place a partisan political bumper 
sticker on any Government owned or Government leased vehicle.
    Example 5: An employee may place a bumper sticker on his or her 
privately owned vehicle and park the vehicle in a parking lot of an 
agency or instrumentality of the United States Government or in a non-
Federal facility for which the employee receives a subsidy from his or 
her employing agency or instrumentality.
    Example 6: An employee, or noncareer SES employee who is subject to 
subpart D of this

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part 734, may not wear partisan political buttons or display partisan 
political pictures, signs, stickers, or badges while he or she is on 
duty or at his or her place of work.
    Example 7: An employee who contributes financially to a political 
action committee through a voluntary allotment made under Sec. 
550.311(b) of this title may not complete the direct deposit forms while 
he or she is on duty, in a ``room or building'' defined in Sec. 
734.101, or in a Federally owned or leased vehicle.
    Example 8: An employee who contributes financially to a political 
action committee may not personally deliver his or her completed direct 
deposit form, or the completed direct deposit form of another employee, 
to the payroll employees who would process or administer such forms. 
However, the employee may mail his or her direct deposit form to his or 
her agency payroll office.

[59 FR 48769, Sept. 23, 1994, as amended at 61 FR 35102, July 5, 1996]