---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 U.S.C. § 7325"
title: "5"
title_heading: "Government Organization and Employees"
number: "7325"
heading: "Political activity permitted; employees residing in certain municipalities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/5/7325"
units:
  - "Part III — Employees"
  - "Subpart F — Labor-Management and Employee Relations"
  - "Chapter 73 — Suitability, Security, and Conduct"
  - "Subchapter III — Political Activities"
---

# §7325. Political activity permitted; employees residing in certain municipalities


The [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3) of Personnel Management may prescribe regulations permitting [employees](/usc/5/7322.md?p=1), without regard to the prohibitions in paragraphs [(2)](/usc/5/7323.md?p=a-2) and [(3)](/usc/5/7323.md?p=a-3) of section 7323(a) and paragraph (2) of [section 7323(b) of this title](/usc/5/7323.md?p=b), to take an active part in political management and political campaigns involving the municipality or other political subdivision in which they reside, to the extent the [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3) considers it to be in their domestic interest, when—

- (1) the municipality or political subdivision is—
  - (A) the District of Columbia;
  - (B) in Maryland or Virginia and in the immediate vicinity of the District of Columbia; or
  - (C) a municipality in which the majority of voters are employed by the [Government](/usc/5/4101.md?p=3) of the [United States](/usc/5/7103.md?p=a-18); and
- (2) the [Office](/usc/5/5402.md?p=3) determines that because of special or unusual circumstances which exist in the municipality or political subdivision it is in the domestic interest of the [employees](/usc/5/7322.md?p=1) and individuals to permit that political participation.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 103–94, § 2(a), Oct. 6, 1993, 107 Stat. 1004; amended Pub. L. 104–93, title III, § 308, Jan. 6, 1996, 109 Stat. 966; Pub. L. 112–230, § 3(f), Dec. 28, 2012, 126 Stat. 1617.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 7325, Pub. L. 89–554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 526; Pub. L. 96–54, § 2(a)(44), Aug. 14, 1979, 93 Stat. 384, related to penalties, prior to the general revision of this subchapter by Pub. L. 103–94.

### Amendments

2012—Par. (1). Pub. L. 112–230 amended par. (1) generally. Prior to amendment, par. (1) read as follows: “the municipality or political subdivision is in Maryland or Virginia and in the immediate vicinity of the District of Columbia, or is a municipality in which the majority of voters are employed by the Government of the United States; and”.

1996—Pub. L. 104–93 inserted “and paragraph (2) of section 7323(b)” after “section 7323(a)”.

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date of 2012 Amendment

Amendment by Pub. L. 112–230 effective 30 days after Dec. 28, 2012, see section 5(a) of Pub. L. 112–230, set out as a note under section 1501 of this title.