[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 32, Volume 5]
[Revised as of July 1, 2005]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 32CFR705.34]

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                       TITLE 32--NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                   CHAPTER VI--DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
 
PART 705_PUBLIC AFFAIRS REGULATIONS--Table of Contents
 
Sec. 705.34  Other special events.

    (a) Ship visits. Requests for visits generally originate with civic 
groups desiring Navy participation in local events. Often, members of 
Congress endorse these requests, advising the Navy of their interest in 
a particular event. Because of the marked increase in requests for ship 
visits, and in order to

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give equal consideration to all requests, the Chief of Information has 
arranged for quarterly meetings of representatives from CHINFO, 
Commander, Navy Recruiting Command, Chief of Naval Operations and Chief 
of Legislative Affairs. Based on the importance of the event 
(nationally, regionally, or locally) location, and prospective audience, 
recommendations are consolidated and forwarded to the fleet commanders 
prior to their quarterly scheduling conferences.
    (b) Visits to Naval activities--(1) Types of visits. (i) General 
visits or Open House are occasions when a ship or station acts as host 
to the general public. These visits will be conducted in accordance with 
instructions issued by Fleet and Force Commanders, District Commandants, 
or other cognizant authority.
    (ii) Casual visits are visits to ships or stations by individuals or 
specific groups, as differentiated from the general public. Details and 
procedures concerning these visits are a matter of command discretion.
    (iii) Tours are occasions when a ship or station is host to a 
specific group on a scheduled date. Some of the larger shore commands 
also regularly schedule one or more sightseeing type tours daily during 
seasons when many vacationers ask to visit the command.
    (2) General rules. Prior approval for general visiting or Open House 
at any time other than civic-sponsored public observances and official 
ceremonies for Armed Forces Day, memorial Day, Independence Day, and 
Veterans Day, and for observances in overseas areas of similar 
significant holidays, will be requested as follows: Fleet units visiting 
U.S. ports, from Senior Officer present Afloat; fleet units visiting 
foreign ports, from commander ordering the visit; shore stations and 
district vessels in the United States, from District Commandants; and 
overseas shore stations, from the naval area commander.
    (c) Official functions. (1) Navy units may be authorized by local 
commanding officers to participate in official government military and 
civic functions, except in the Washington DC area where OASD(PA) retains 
authority.
    (2) Official government functions include those in which senior 
officials of the federal government are involved in the performance of 
their official duties.
    (3) Official military functions include social activities held on 
military installations (or off, when it is certified that suitable 
facilities are not available on base), which are sponsored by the Navy, 
have as their principal purpose the promotion of esprit de corps, and 
are conducted primarily for active duty personnel and their guests.
    (4) Official civic functions include such state, county or municipal 
events as inaugurals, dedications of public buildings and projects, and 
convening of legislative bodies and ceremonies for officially invited 
government visitors.
    (5) Overseas, similar functions attended by comparable host-country 
officials in their official capacities might also be considered 
appropriate for Navy participation.
    (d) A parade which is sponsored by the community as a whole (rather 
than by a single commercial venture) and held on a Sunday or holiday or 
at a time when shops are closed for business may be a public event for 
which participation could properly be authorized; representation by 
individual commercial ventures in such parades need not be a bar to Navy 
participation as long as the emphasis is planned and placed on the civic 
rather than commercial aspects. Such participation will be at no 
additional cost to the government.
    (e) Fund-raising events. (1) Navy support of fund-raising events 
must be limited to recognized, joint or other authorized campaigns. Navy 
support of fund-raising events or projects for a single cause, even 
though the cause is a member of one of the federated, joint or 
authorized campaigns, or donates in part to one of several of the 
recognized campaigns, is not authorized by Department of Defense.
    (2) Navy support for a single-cause fund-raising event may be 
authorized if the event is:
    (i) In support of Navy recruiting objectives;
    (ii) Supported by a letter indicating the local United Way 
representative has no objection; and

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    (iii) Approved by the local Navy Commander as a single-cause charity 
which has broad local benefit.

[41 FR 29101, July 15, 1976, as amended at 44 FR 6391, Feb. 1, 1979]