[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 45, Volume 1]

[Revised as of October 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 45CFR73.735-505]



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                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE

 

                    SUBTITLE A--DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH

                           AND HUMAN SERVICES

 

PART 73_STANDARDS OF CONDUCT--Table of Contents

 

               Subpart E_Gifts, Entertainment, and Favors

 

Sec.  73.735-505  Acceptance of awards and prizes.



    (a) Employees may accept awards, including cash awards, given in 

recognition of a meritorious public contribution or achievement. 

However, if there is any indication that the award may improperly 

influence the employee in the performance of his or her offical duties, 

advice about the acceptance of it should be sought from a deputy ethics 

counselor. Also, an employee may not accept an award from an 

organization which the employee knows, or should know, has a contractual 

or other business arrangement with, or is regulated by, the principal 

operating component, or a sub-unit, in which he or she is employed or 

with respect to which the employee has official duties, unless 

acceptance is approved by the head of the employee's principal operating 

component. The head of the component may not approve acceptance unless 

he or she is satisfied that no actual conflict of interest would result.

    (b) Employees may generally accept trophies, entertainment, rewards, 

and prizes given to competitors in contests or events which are open to 

the public.

    (c) Employees may not accept gifts, awards, decorations or other 

things of value from a foreign government except as provided in Sec.  

73.735-506.