18 U.S.C. § 209 : US Code - Section 209: Salary of Government officials and employees payable only by United States

Search 18 U.S.C. § 209 : US Code - Section 209: Salary of Government officials and employees payable only by United States

(a) Whoever receives any salary, or any contribution to or
supplementation of salary, as compensation for his services as an
officer or employee of the executive branch of the United States
Government, of any independent agency of the United States, or of
the District of Columbia, from any source other than the Government
of the United States, except as may be contributed out of the
treasury of any State, county, or municipality; or
Whoever, whether an individual, partnership, association,
corporation, or other organization pays, makes any contribution to,
or in any way supplements, the salary of any such officer or
employee under circumstances which would make its receipt a
violation of this subsection -
Shall be subject to the penalties set forth in section 216 of
this title.
(b) Nothing herein prevents an officer or employee of the
executive branch of the United States Government, or of any
independent agency of the United States, or of the District of
Columbia, from continuing to participate in a bona fide pension,
retirement, group life, health or accident insurance, profit-
sharing, stock bonus, or other employee welfare or benefit plan
maintained by a former employer.
(c) This section does not apply to a special Government employee
or to an officer or employee of the Government serving without
compensation, whether or not he is a special Government employee,
or to any person paying, contributing to, or supplementing his
salary as such.
(d) This section does not prohibit payment or acceptance of
contributions, awards, or other expenses under the terms of chapter
41 of title 5.
(e) This section does not prohibit the payment of actual
relocation expenses incident to participation, or the acceptance of
same by a participant in an executive exchange or fellowship
program in an executive agency: Provided, That such program has
been established by statute or Executive order of the President,
offers appointments not to exceed three hundred and sixty-five
days, and permits no extensions in excess of ninety additional days
or, in the case of participants in overseas assignments, in excess
of three hundred and sixty-five days.
(f) This section does not prohibit acceptance or receipt, by any
officer or employee injured during the commission of an offense
described in section 351 or 1751 of this title, of contributions or
payments from an organization which is described in section
501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 and which is exempt
from taxation under section 501(a) of such Code.
(g)(1) This section does not prohibit an employee of a private
sector organization, while assigned to an agency under chapter 37
of title 5, from continuing to receive pay and benefits from such
organization in accordance with such chapter.
(2) For purposes of this subsection, the term "agency" means an
agency (as defined by section 3701 of title 5) and the Office of
the Chief Technology Officer of the District of Columbia.
(h) This section does not prohibit a member of the reserve
components of the armed forces on active duty pursuant to a call or
order to active duty under a provision of law referred to in
section 101(a)(13) of title 10 from receiving from any person that
employed such member before the call or order to active duty any
payment of any part of the salary or wages that such person would
have paid the member if the member's employment had not been
interrupted by such call or order to active duty.