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, or 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 [5 USCS 4101 et seq.].
(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 1954 [26 USCS 501(c)(3)] and which is
exempt from taxation under section 501(a) of such Code [26 USCS 501(a)].