New Jersey Administrative Code
Title 4A - CIVIL SERVICE
Chapter 10 - VIOLATIONS AND PENALTIES
Subchapter 1 - VIOLATIONS
Section 4A:10-1.2 - Political activity

Universal Citation: NJ Admin Code 4A:10-1.2

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 24, December 18, 2024

(a) No employee in the career or senior executive service shall directly or indirectly use or seek to use his or her position to control or affect the political action of another person or engage in political activity during working hours. See N.J.S.A. 11A:2-23.

(b) No employee in the career, senior executive, or unclassified services whose principal employment is in connection with a program financed in whole or in part by Federal grants or loans, shall engage in any of the following prohibited activities under the Hatch Act (5 U.S.C. §§ 1501 et seq.):

1. Use official authority or influence for the purpose of interfering with or affecting the result of an election or nomination for office;

2. Directly or indirectly coerce, attempt to coerce, command, or advise a State, county, or municipal officer or employee to pay, lend, or contribute anything of value to a party, committee, organization, agency, or person for political purposes; or

3. Be a candidate for elective office, if the salary of the employee is paid completely, directly or indirectly, by Federal grants or loans, except that this prohibition shall not apply to:
i. The Governor or Lieutenant Governor or an individual authorized by law to act as Governor;

ii. The mayor of a city;

iii. A duly elected head of an executive department of the State or a municipality, which office does not fall under the Civil Service Act at Title 11A, New Jersey Statutes; or

iv. An individual holding elective office.

(c) The office of the Special Counsel of the United States Merit Systems Protection Board has responsibility for the investigation of Hatch Act matters.

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