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B-199656 1 (1981-07-15)

handle is hein.gao/gaobadjoa0001 and id is 1 raw text is: DECISION FILE: B-199656 MATTER OF: Gifts or Prizes Acquired in the Course of Official Travel Assignments DIGEST: 1. It is a fundamental rule of law that a Federal employee is obligated to account for any gift, gratuity, or benefit received from private sources incident to the performance of official duty, and therefore an employee may not retain any half-fare coupon, bonus point, or similar item of value received from a commercial air carrier on the basis of the purchase of an airline ticket to be used for official travel. 2. A Federal employee is entitled to keep prizes and gifts acquired from private sources through means that are unrelated to his official duties; hence, if an employee while traveling on official business happens to enter a contest sponsored by an air carrier which is open to the entire general public rather than to just ticket-holding passengers, then the transaction may properly be regarded as the employee's own personal affair, and in that particular situation he would not have a duty to account for any prizes won. Thisaction is in response to correspondence received from the Deputy Director for Finance, Office of Operations and.Finance, United States Department of Agriculture, requesting a decision: * * * regarding the rights to items won from coupons or other material distributed by carriers to government employees in travel status when the receipt of the coupons or other material is not contingent upon the travel which is being performed. We conclude that a Federal employee has a duty to account for any bonus or gift coupon received from an air carrier incident to the purchase of an airline ticket to be used for official travel. However, an employee may enter a / ,~r, Je / tg4?~ ,/%~S/~~, _ rZ I rf7 THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES WASHINGTON, 0.C. 20548 DATE: July 15, 1981

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