LISTING OF EMPLOYEES WHO MUST FILE STATEMENTS

0.735-100 Listing of employees.

Subpart B-Preventing Conflicts of Interest on the Part of Special Government Employees in the Department

GENERAL PROVISIONS

0.735-200 Purpose.

0.735-201 Scope. 0.735-202 Policy.

GENERAL RULES OF CONDUCT APPLICABLE TO SPECIAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES 0.735-203 Applicability of Subpart A of this part.

0.735-204 Use of Government employment. 0.735-205 Use of inside information. 0.735-206 Teaching, lecturing, and writing. 0.735-207 Coercion. 0.735-208 0.735-209

Gifts, entertainment, and favors. Miscellaneous statutory provisions.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST STATUTES 0.735-210 Applicability of 18 U.S.C. 203 and

205.

0.735-211 Applicability of 18 U.S.C. 207. 0.735-212 Applicability of 18 U.S.C. 208. CONSULTANTS AND ADVISERS

0.735-220 Advice on rules of conduct and conflict of interest statutes.

0.735-221 Industry, labor, agricultural, and other representatives.

0.735-222 Responsibility of the individual special Government employee.

PROCEDURES TO BE FOLLOWED IN THE
DEPARTMENT

0.735-230 Information and assistance to special Government employees and their supervisors.

0.735-302 General provisions governing conduct in foreign countries.

SPECIFIC RULES OF CONDUCT

0.735-310 Basic rule of conduct.

0.735-311 Applicability to American

ployees.

em

0.735-312 Applicability to members of fami

0.735-313 0.735-314 0.735-315

lies.

Expression of thoughts and views.
Political activities.

Acceptance of employment by a
member of a family.

0.735-316 Sale of personal automobiles and other personal property.

ADVICE AND COUNSELING

0.735-320 Responsibility for guidance and assistance.

Appendix A-Identification of Positions the Incumbents of Which Must File Financial Statements.

Appendix B-Confidential Statement of Employment and Financial Interests. Appendix C-Statement of Employment and Financial Interests for Special Government Employees.

AUTHORITY: The provisions of this Part 0 issued under E.O. 11222, May 8, 1965; 18 U.S.C. 201 note; 5 CFR 735.104.

SOURCE: The provisions of this Part 0 appear at 35 F.R. 19056, Dec. 16, 1970, unless otherwise noted.

Subpart A-Regular Employees

(a) Executive Order 11222 of May 8, 1965, U.S.C. 201 note, states the basic philosophy of conduct for those who carry out the public business:

Where government is based on the consent of the governed, every citizen is entitled to have complete confidence in the integrity of his government. Each individual officer, employee, or adviser of government must help to earn and must honor that trust by his own integrity and conduct in all official actions.

(b) Personnel of the Treasury Department are expected to adhere to the above stated principles and to standards of behavior that will reflect credit on the Government. The Department's position is that of having confidence in its employees and of taking a positive and reasonable approach to the matter of maintaining the high standards of conduct necessary in the transaction of Treasury activities. Those few employees who violate the laws or the rules or regulations on conduct in this part will be disciplined in accordance with the gravity of the offenses committed.

(c) Disciplinary action may be in addition to any penalty prescribed by law. If disciplinary or other remedial action is necessary, it will be taken only after consideration of the explanation of the employee and will be effected in accordance with applicable laws and regula

(a) "Regular employee" or "employee" means an officer or employee of the Treasury Department, but does not include a special Government employee.

(b) "Special Government employee” means an officer or employee of the Treasury Department who is retained, designated, appointed, or employed to perform, with or without compensation, for not to exceed 130 days during any period of 365 consecutive days, temporary duties either on a full-time or intermittent basis.

(c) "Person" means an individual, a corporation, a company, an association, a firm, a partnership, a society, a joint stock company, or any other organization or institution.

CONFLICTS OF INTEREST

The elimination of conflicts of interest in the Federal service is one of the most important objectives in establishing general standards of conduct. A. conflict of interest situation may be defined as one in which a Federal employee's private interest, usually of an economic nature, conflicts or raises a reasonable question of conflict with his public duties and responsibilities. The potential conflict is of concern whether it is real or only apparent. The rules of the Treasury Department concerning conflicts of interest appear in §§ 0.73533, 0.735-35, 0.735-36, and 0.735-38.

§ 0.735-21 Summary of provisions of criminal code.

The following is a brief summary of the provisions of the criminal code, 18 U.S.C., effective January 21, 1963, which define the conflicts of interest which are subject to fine and imprisonment. These provisions have been interpreted by the Attorney General in a memorandum distributed to Heads of Departments and Agencies, dated January 28, 1963, 28 F.R. 985 and published in a note following 18: U.S.C. 201. It should be noted that lesser prohibitions apply to special Govern