§13123 Administrative Provisions

Summary

Federal agencies must help the Director of the Office of Government Ethics. They must make staff, services, facilities, and records available as much as possible, unless a law stops them. The Director can ask an agency’s inspector general to help with investigations. Agency leaders may detail people or provide services the Director requests, with or without payment. The Director may accept gifts, donations, bequests, or use of property or services for the Office’s work. Gifts that break laws or would force spending money the Office doesn’t have cannot be accepted. The Director must write rules to decide if a gift would hurt the Office’s fairness or its appearance of integrity.