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[CITE: 5USC7322]

 
             TITLE 5--GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATION AND EMPLOYEES
 
                           PART III--EMPLOYEES
 
           Subpart F--Labor-Management and Employee Relations
 
             CHAPTER 73--SUITABILITY, SECURITY, AND CONDUCT
 
                  SUBCHAPTER III--POLITICAL ACTIVITIES
 
Sec. 7322. Definitions

    For the purpose of this subchapter--
        (1) ``employee'' means any individual, other than the President 
    and the Vice President, employed or holding office in--
            (A) an Executive agency other than the General Accounting 
        Office;
            (B) a position within the competitive service which is not 
        in an Executive agency; or
            (C) the government of the District of Columbia, other than 
        the Mayor or a member of the City Council or the Recorder of 
        Deeds;

    but does not include a member of the uniformed services;
        (2) ``partisan political office'' means any office for which any 
    candidate is nominated or elected as representing a party any of 
    whose candidates for Presidential elector received votes in the last 
    preceding election at which Presidential electors were selected, but 
    shall exclude any office or position within a political party or 
    affiliated organization; and
        (3) ``political contribution''--
            (A) means any gift, subscription, loan, advance, or deposit 
        of money or anything of value, made for any political purpose;
            (B) includes any contract, promise, or agreement, express or 
        implied, whether or not legally enforceable, to make a 
        contribution for any political purpose;
            (C) includes any payment by any person, other than a 
        candidate or a political party or affiliated organization, of 
        compensation for the personal services of another person which 
        are rendered to any candidate or political party or affiliated 
        organization without charge for any political purpose; and
            (D) includes the provision of personal services for any 
        political purpose.

(Added Pub. L. 103-94, Sec. 2(a), Oct. 6, 1993, 107 Stat. 1001.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 7322, Pub. L. 89-554, Sept. 6, 1966, 80 Stat. 525, 
prohibited employees in Executive agencies or competitive service from 
using official authority or influence to coerce political actions of 
persons or bodies, prior to the general revision of this subchapter by 
Pub. L. 103-94.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in title 18 sections 602, 603, 610.
