[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 45, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 45CFR73.735-505]

[Page 187]
 
                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE
 
                           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.