---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 734.304"
title: "5"
number: "734.304"
heading: "Candidacy for public office."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/734.304"
---

# §734.304. Candidacy for public office.


An employee may not run for the nomination or as a candidate for election to partisan political office, except as specified in [§ 734.207](/cfr/5/734.207.md).


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 1103, 1104, 7325; Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1978, 92 Stat. 3783, 3 CFR 1978 Comp. p. 323; and E.O. 12107, 3 CFR 1978 Comp. p. 264.

### Source

Source: 59 FR 48769, Sept. 23, 1994, unless otherwise noted.