[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 14, Volume 5]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 14CFR1221.110]

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                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE
 
                   CHAPTER V--NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND
                          SPACE ADMINISTRATION
 
PART 1221_THE NASA SEAL AND OTHER DEVICES, AND THE CONGRESSIONAL SPACE MEDAL 
 
  Subpart 1221.1_NASA Seal, NASA Insignia, NASA Logotype, NASA Program 
Identifiers, NASA Flags, and the Agency's Unified Visual Communications 
                                 System
 
Sec.  1221.110  Use of the NASA Insignia.

    The NASA Insignia is authorized for use on the following:
    (a) NASA articles. (1) NASA letterhead stationary.
    (2) Films, videotapes, and sound recordings produced by or for NASA.
    (3) Wearing apparel and personal property items used by NASA 
employees in the performance of their duties.
    (4) Required uniforms of contractor employees when performing public 
affairs, guard or fire protection duties, and similar duties within NASA 
Installations or at other assigned NASA duty stations, and on any 
required contractor-owned vehicles used exclusively in the performance 
of these duties, when authorized by NASA contracting officers.
    (5) Spacecraft, aircraft, automobiles, trucks and similar vehicles 
owned by, leased to, or contractor-furnished to NASA, or produced for 
NASA by contractors, but excluding NASA-owned vehicles used and operated 
by contractors for the conduct of contractor business.
    (6) Equipment and facilities owned by, leased to, or contractor-
furnished to NASA, such as machinery, major tools, ground handling 
equipment, office and shop furnishings (if appropriate), and similar 
items of a permanent nature, including those produced for NASA by 
contractors.
    (7) NASA publications, including pamphlets, brochures, manuals, 
handbooks, house organs, bulletins, general reports, posters, signs, 
charts, exhibits, and items of similar nature for general use, as 
specified in the NASA Graphics Standards Manual and the NASA Insignia 
Standards Supplement.
    (8) Briefcases or dispatch cases issued by NASA.
    (9) Certificates covering authority to NASA and contractor security 
personnel to carry firearms.
    (10) NASA occupied buildings when the use of the NASA Insignia is 
more appropriate than use of the NASA Seal.
    (b) Personal articles--NASA employees. (1) Business calling cards of 
NASA employees may carry the imprint of the NASA Insignia.
    (2) Limited usage on automobiles. If determined appropriate by the 
cognizant Installation official, it is acceptable to place a NASA 
Insignia sticker on personal automobiles where such identification will 
facilitate entry or control of such vehicles at NASA Installations or 
parking areas.
    (3) Personal items used in connection with NASA employees' 
recreation association activities.
    (4) Items for sale through NASA employees' nonappropriated fund 
activities subject to paragraph (c) of this section.
    (5) NASA employees shall not use the NASA Insignia in any manner 
that would imply that NASA endorses a commercial product, service, or 
activity or that material of a nonofficial nature represents NASA's 
official position.
    (c) Miscellaneous articles. (1) The manufacture and commercial sale 
of the NASA Insignia as a separate and distinct device in the form of an 
emblem, patch, insignia, badge, decal, vinylcal, cloth, metal, or other 
material which would preclude NASA's control over its use or application 
is prohibited.
    (2) Use of the NASA Uniform Patches, which incorporate the NASA 
Insignia, is authorized only as prescribed in the NASA Graphics 
Standards Manual and the NASA Insignia Standards Supplement, for NASA 
personnel and NASA contractor personnel identification.

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    (3) No approval for use of the NASA Insignia will be authorized when 
its use can be construed as an endorsement by NASA of a product or 
service.
    (4) Items bearing the NASA Insignia such as souvenirs, novelties, 
toys, models, clothing, and similar items (including items for sale 
through the NASA employees' nonappropriated fund activities) may be 
manufactured and sold only after the NASA Insignia application has been 
submitted to, and approved by, the Associate Administrator for Public 
Affairs, or designee, NASA Headquarters, Washington, DC 20546.
    (d) Use of the NASA Insignia for any other purpose than as 
prescribed in this section is prohibited, except that the Associate 
Administrator for Public Affairs may authorize on a case-by-case basis 
the use of the NASA Insignia for other purposes when the Associate 
Administrator for the Public Affairs deems such use to be appropriate.