Restriction on payment to certain officers

§ 801. Restriction on payment to certain officers (a) An officer of the Regular Navy or the Regular Marine Corps, other than a retired officer, may not be employed by a person furnishing naval supplies or war materials to the United States. If such an officer is so employed, he is not entitled to any payment from the United States during that employment. (b) If a retired officer of the Regular Navy or the Regular Marine Corps is engaged for himself or others in selling, or contracting or negotiating to sell, naval supplies or war materials to the Department of the Navy, he is not entitled to any payment from the United States while he is so engaged. (c) Payment may not be made from any appropriation, for a period of two years after his name is placed on that list, to an officer on a retired list of the Regular Army, the Regular Navy, the Regular Air Force, the Regular Marine Corps, the Regular Coast Guard, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, or the Public Health Service, who is engaged for himself or others in selling, or contracting or negotiating to sell, supplies or war materials to an agency of the Department of Defense, the Coast Guard, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, or the Public Health Service.