---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 734.409"
title: "5"
number: "734.409"
heading: "Participation in political organizations; prohibitions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/734.409"
---

# §734.409. Participation in political organizations; prohibitions.


An employee covered under this subpart may not:

- (a) Serve as an officer of a political party, a member of a national, State, or local committee of a political party, an officer or member of a committee of a partisan political group, or be a candidate for any of these positions;
- (b) Organize or reorganize a political party organization or partisan political group;
- (c) Serve as a delegate, alternate, or proxy to a political party convention; and
- (d) Address a convention, caucus, rally, or similar gathering of a political party or partisan political group in support of or in opposition to a candidate for partisan political office or political party office, if such address is done in concert with such a candidate, political party, or partisan political group.

## 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.