---
kind: "section"
citation: "48 U.S.C. § 2129"
title: "48"
title_heading: "Territories and Insular Possessions"
number: "2129"
heading: "Ethics"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/48/2129"
units:
  - "Chapter 20 — Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability"
  - "Subchapter I — Establishment and Organization of Oversight Board"
---

# §2129. Ethics

- (a) **Conflict of interest—** Notwithstanding any ethics provision governing employees of the [covered territory](/usc/48/2104.md?p=8), all members and staff of the [Oversight Board](/usc/48/2104.md?p=17) shall be subject to the Federal conflict of interest requirements described in [section 208 of title 18](/usc/18/208.md).
- (b) **Financial disclosure—** Notwithstanding any ethics provision governing employees of the [covered territory](/usc/48/2104.md?p=8), all members of the [Oversight Board](/usc/48/2104.md?p=17) and staff designated by the [Oversight Board](/usc/48/2104.md?p=17) shall be subject to disclosure of their financial interests, the contents of which shall conform to the same requirements set forth in [section 13104 of title 5](/usc/5/13104.md).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 114–187, title I, § 109, June 30, 2016, 130 Stat. 563; Pub. L. 117–286, § 4(c)(45), Dec. 27, 2022, 136 Stat. 4359.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2022—Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 117–286 substituted “section 13104 of title 5.” for “section 102 of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.).”