5 U.S.C. § 13123 — Administrative provisions

(a) Assistance to Director: When the Director asks, each executive agency must (1) make its services, personnel, and facilities available to the Director, as much as practically possible, to help carry out this chapter's functions; and (2) except where the law forbids it, give the Director all information and records the Director decides are needed to do the Director's job. The Director may also ask an agency's inspector general for help with investigations tied to the Office of Government Ethics's responsibilities. Any agency head may lend staff and provide services, paid or unpaid, at the Director's request, to help carry out this chapter.

(b) Gift acceptance authority:
(1) In general: The Director may accept and use, on behalf of the United States, gifts, donations, bequests, or devises of money, use of facilities, personal property, or services to help the work of the Office of Government Ethics.
(2) Limitations: No gift may be accepted (A) if it comes with conditions that conflict with applicable laws or regulations, or (B) if accepting it would require spending appropriated funds the Office does not have.
(3) Criteria for determining appropriateness of gift acceptance: The Director must write rules setting out how to decide whether accepting a contribution of money, services, use of facilities, or property would make the Office — or any of its employees — look unable to do its job fairly and objectively, or would compromise the integrity, or appearance of integrity, of its programs or the people involved in them.