---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 734.411"
title: "5"
number: "734.411"
heading: "Participation in political campaigning; prohibitions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/734.411"
---

# §734.411. Participation in political campaigning; prohibitions.


An employee covered under this subpart may not:

- (a) Take an active part in managing the political campaign of a candidate for partisan political office or a candidate for political party office;
- (b) Campaign for partisan political office;
- (c) Canvass for votes in support of or in opposition to a candidate for partisan political office or a candidate for political party office, if such canvassing is done in concert with such a candidate, or of a political party, or partisan political group;
- (d) Endorse or oppose a candidate for partisan political office or a candidate for political party office in a political advertisement, broadcast, campaign literature, or similar material if such endorsement or opposition is done in concert with such a candidate, political party, or partisan political group;
- (e) **Initiate or circulate a partisan nominating petition.**

## 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.