The Code, although it was of a recommendatory nature, later became the basis for the legal regulation of the “administrative ethics” of US civil servants.
As a follow-up to the Code, in 1962, the US Congress adopted the so-called “official standards of conduct for elected officials (members of both houses of parliament) and public officials of the executive branch.”
In 1965, by order of President L. Johnson, standards of conduct and ethical norms of officials were established. In 1978, these rules took the form of the Law on the Ethics of Public Officials.
Since the end of the 80s of the XX century. ethical principles of public service have become the object of even more stringent legal regulation. In 1989, the Ethics Act Reform Act was passed by the US Congress, which introduced significant changes to the rules governing the ethics of officials, and extended them to all branches of the federal government – legislative, executive and judicial.
In October 1990, the Act was enforced by Executive Order 12731 of the President of the United States of America, Principles of Ethical Conduct for Officials and Government Employees. These principles were extended not only to senior officials and ordinary civil servants.
According to the order, civil servants:
must not participate in financial transactions that involve the use of classified government information or the use of such information for personal purposes;
may not in any way encourage offerings or accept gifts from any person or group of persons seeking them to do any official act, having any common business with them, or carrying out activities regulated by the body in which they work these employees;
accept gifts from persons whose interests depend on the fulfillment or non-fulfillment of their official duties by these employees;
are obliged to report "to the appropriate authorities on all observed cases of property destruction, deception, abuse and corruption."