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Exhibit 349

Restrictions on former officers, employees, and elected officials, 18 U.S.C. § 207

Exhibit 349 · Statute

Restrictions on former officers, employees, and elected officials, 18 U.S.C. § 207

within 1 year after the termination of his or her service or employment as such officer or employee, knowingly makes, with the intent to influence, any communication to or appearance before any officer or employee of the department or agency in which such person served within 1 year before such termination

Permanent bar on representation in matters handled personally and substantially; two-year bar on matters under official responsibility; one-year bar for senior personnel on contacts with their former agency; two-year bar for very senior personnel; two-year (Senators) and one-year (House Members) bars on lobbying Congress. Does not bar employment or behind-the-scenes work.

Source
United States Congress
Date
Current text
Quoted from
18 U.S.C. § 207(c)(1)
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/207
Accessed
2026-11-09
Cited by
Findings citing this exhibit

Cited by

Finding DEF-4.1
Primary record Under 18 U.S.C. § 207, former executive-branch officials may not contact their former agency on behalf of others for one year (senior personnel) or two years (very senior personnel), and may never do so on matters they handled personally and substantially. The statute does not bar employment with a contractor.