[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: 5CFR734.406]



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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.



    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 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



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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.



    (b) [Reserved]



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