Appendix to Part 73 - Code of Ethics for Government Service
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Appendix to Part 73 - Code of Ethics for Government Service
Any person in Government service should:
Put loyalty to the highest moral principles and to country above
loyalty to persons, party, or Government department.
Uphold the Constitution, laws, and regulations of the United
States and of all governments therein and never be a party to their
evasion.
Give a full day's labor for a full day's pay; giving earnest
effort and best thought to the performance of duties.
Seek to find and employ more efficient and economical ways of
getting tasks accomplished.
Never discriminate unfairly by the dispensing of special favors
or privileges to anyone, whether for remuneration or not; and never
accept, for himself or herself or for family members, favors or
benefits under circumstances which might be construed by reasonable
persons as influencing the performance of governmental duties.
Make no private promises of any kind binding upon the duties of
office, since a Government employee has no private word which can
be binding on public duty.
Engage in no business with the Government, either directly or
indirectly, which is inconsistent with the conscientious
performance of governmental duties.
Never use any information gained confidentially in the
performance of governmental duties as a means of making private
profit.
Expose corruption wherever discovered.
Uphold these principles, ever conscious that public office is a
public trust.
(This Code of Ethics was unanimously passed by the United States
Congress on June 27, 1980, and signed into law as Public Law 96-303
by the President on July 3, 1980.)