Appendix A to Part 3001 - Code of Ethics For Government Service
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Appendix A to Part 3001 - Code of Ethics For Government Service
Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate
concurring), That it is the sense of the Congress that the
following Code of Ethics should be adhered to by all Government
employees, including office-holders:
code of ethics for government service
Any person in Government service should:
1. Put loyalty to the highest moral principles and to country
above loyalty to persons, party, or Government department.
2. Uphold the Constitution, laws, and legal regulations of the
United States and of all governments therein and never be a party
to their evasion.
3. Give a full day's labor for a full day's pay; giving to the
performance of his duties his earnest effort and best thought.
4. Seek to find and employ more efficient and economical ways of
getting tasks accomplished.
5. Never discriminate unfairly by the dispensing of special
favors or privileges to anyone, whether for remuneration or not;
and never accept, for himself or his family, favors or benefits
under circumstances which might be construed by reasonable persons
as influencing the performance of his governmental duties.
6. 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.
7. Engage in no business with the Government, either directly or
indirectly, which is inconsistent with the conscientious
performance of his governmental duties.
8. Never use any information coming to him confidentially in the
performance of governmental duties as a means for making private
profit.
9. Expose corruption wherever discovered.
10. Uphold these principles, ever conscious that public office
is a public trust.
Passed July 11, 1958.