---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 733.107"
title: "5"
number: "733.107"
heading: "Designated localities."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/733.107"
---

# §733.107. Designated localities.

- (a) When OPM determines that, because of special or unusual circumstances, it is in the domestic interest of employees to participate in local elections, OPM may specify as a designated locality:
  - (1) The District of Columbia,
  - (2) A municipality or political subdivision in Maryland or Virginia and in the immediate vicinity of the District of Columbia, or
  - (3) **A municipality in which the majority of voters are employed by the Government of the United States.**
- (b) Information as to the documentation required to support a request for designation is furnished by the General Counsel of OPM on request.
- (c) The following municipalities and political subdivisions have been designated, effective on the day specified:

## Notes

### Amendments

[63 FR 4558, Jan. 30, 1998, as amended at 73 FR 28026, May 15, 2008; 77 FR 26660, May 7, 2012; 78 FR 66826, Nov. 7, 2013; 79 FR 25485, May 5, 2014]

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 7325.d.

### Source

Source: 63 FR 4558, Jan. 30, 1998, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[63 FR 4558, Jan. 30, 1998, as amended at 73 FR 28026, May 15, 2008; 77 FR 26660, May 7, 2012; 78 FR 66826, Nov. 7, 2013; 79 FR 25485, May 5, 2014]