Ohio Administrative Code
Title 3349 - Northeast Ohio Medical University
Chapter 3349-8 - Policies for Unclassified Hourly Employees and Classified Civil Service Employees
Section 3349-8-70 - Political activity
Universal Citation: OH Admin Code 3349-8-70
Current through all regulations passed and filed through September 16, 2024
(A) Purpose
To establish a rule that will eliminate inappropriate conflicts between the obligations of employment and certain political activities of classified civil service employees.
(B) Scope
This rule applies to all classified civil service employees at the university.
(C) Definitions
(1)
Consult rule
3349-7-01 of the Administrative
Code.
(2)
"Political Activity" and "Politics" are partisan
activities, campaigns, and elections involving primaries, partisan ballots, or
partisan candidates.
(D) Rule statement
(1)
Employees in the classified service are prohibited from
engaging in political activity.
(2)
The following are
examples of permissible activities for university employees:
(a)
Registration and
voting;
(b)
Expression of opinions, either oral or
written;
(c)
Voluntary financial contributions to political
candidates or organizations;
(d)
Circulation of
nonpartisan petitions or petitions stating views on
legislation;
(e)
Attendance at political rallies;
(f)
Signing
nominating petitions in support of individuals;
(g)
Display of
political materials in the employee's home or on the employee's
property;
(h)
Wearing political badges or buttons, or the display of
political stickers on private vehicles; and
(i)
Serving as a
precinct election official under section
3501.22 of the Revised
Code.
(3)
The following activities are prohibited to
employees:
(a)
Candidacy for public office in a partisan
election;
(b)
Candidacy for public office in a nonpartisan general
election if the nomination to candidacy was obtained in a partisan primary or
through the circulation of nominating petitions identified with a political
party;
(c)
Filing of petitions meeting statutory requirements for
partisan candidacy to elective office;
(d)
Circulation of
official nominating petitions for any candidate participating in a partisan
election;
(e)
Service in an elected or appointed office in any
partisan political organization;
(f)
Acceptance of a
party-sponsored appointment to any office normally filled by partisan
election;
(g)
Campaigning by writing for publications, by
distributing political material, or by writing or making speeches on behalf of
a candidate for partisan elective office, when such activities are directed
toward party success;
(h)
Solicitation, either directly or indirectly, of any
assessment, contribution or subscription, either monetary or in-kind, for any
political party or political candidate;
(i)
Solicitation of
the sale, or actual sale, of political party tickets;
(j)
Partisan
activities at the election polls, such as solicitation of votes for other than
nonpartisan candidates and nonpartisan issues;
(k)
Service as,
witness or challenger, for any party or partisan committee;
(l)
Participation in
political caucuses of a partisan nature; and
(m)
Participation in
a political action committee which supports partisan activity.
(4)
Employees in the classified civil service who engage in any
of the prohibited activities set forth in paragraph (D)(3)
of this
rule are subject to removal from their position in the classified civil
service. The appointing authority will initiate an investigation in case of a
violation and take action if appropriate.
(5)
Service in an
appointed or elected position is prohibited when such position is subordinate
to or in any way a check upon a position concurrently occupied by a classified
or unclassified employee, or when it is physically impossible for one person to
discharge the duties of both positions, or if some specific constitutional or
statutory bar exists prohibiting a person from serving both positions.
Replaces: 3349-8-70
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