PRIA Logo™
Title 5 — Government Organization and EmployeesRelease 119-73not60

§13111 Notice of Actions Taken to Comply with Ethics Agreements

Title 5 › Part IV— ETHICS REQUIREMENTS › Chapter 131— ETHICS IN GOVERNMENT › Subchapter I— FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE REQUIREMENTS OF FEDERAL PERSONNEL › § 13111

Last updated Apr 3, 2026|Official source

Summary

When you agree with your agency ethics official, the Office of Government Ethics, a Senate confirmation committee, a congressional ethics committee, or the Judicial Conference to take actions to follow conflict-of-interest rules, you must put in writing what you did and send that notice to the same office. Send it by the deadline in the agreement, or if no deadline is listed, within 3 months of the agreement. If the agreement requires you to recuse yourself from certain topics, you must write down which topics and how you will decide in each case. Filing that written recusal plan with your agency ethics official or the supervising ethics office within the same time frame satisfies the notice rule.

Full Legal Text

Title 5, §13111

Government Organization and Employees — Source: USLM XML via OLRC

(a)In any case in which an individual agrees with that individual’s designated agency ethics official, the Office of Government Ethics, a Senate confirmation committee, a congressional ethics committee, or the Judicial Conference, to take any action to comply with this chapter or any other law or regulation governing conflicts of interest of, or establishing standards of conduct applicable with respect to, officers or employees of the Government, that individual shall notify in writing the designated agency ethics official, the Office of Government Ethics, the appropriate committee of the Senate, the congressional ethics committee, or the Judicial Conference, as the case may be, of any action taken by the individual pursuant to that agreement. Such notification shall be made not later than the date specified in the agreement by which action by the individual must be taken, or not later than 3 months after the date of the agreement, if no date for action is so specified.
(b)If an agreement described in subsection (a) requires that the individual recuse himself or herself from particular categories of agency or other official action, the individual shall reduce to writing those subjects regarding which the recusal agreement will apply and the process by which it will be determined whether the individual must recuse himself or herself in a specific instance. An individual shall be considered to have complied with the requirements of subsection (a) with respect to such recusal agreement if such individual files a copy of the document setting forth the information described in the preceding sentence with such individual’s designated agency ethics official or the appropriate supervising ethics office within the time prescribed in the last sentence of subsection (a).

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Historical and Revision Notes

Revised SectionSource (U.S. Code)Source (Statutes at Large) 131115 U.S.C. App. (EGA § 110)Pub. L. 95–521, title I, § 110, as added Pub. L. 101–194, title II, § 202, Nov. 30, 1989, 103 Stat. 1744; amended Pub. L. 101–280, § 3(1), May 4, 1990, 104 Stat. 152.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

5 U.S.C. § 13111

Title 5 — Government Organization and Employees

Last Updated

Apr 3, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60