[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 5, Volume 2]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

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 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



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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]