[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 42, Volume 1]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 42CFR35.14]

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                         TITLE 42--PUBLIC HEALTH
 
    CHAPTER I--PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN 
                                SERVICES
 
PART 35--HOSPITAL AND STATION MANAGEMENT--Table of Contents
 
                           Subpart A--General
 
Sec. 35.14  Solicitation of legal business; negotiation of release or settlement; assistance prohibited.

    All employees of the Service and all persons attached in any 
capacity to a station or hospital, including patients, are forbidden to 
communicate, directly or indirectly, with any person for the purpose of 
aiding in the solicitation of legal business or in the negotiation of a 
settlement or the obtaining of a general or special release or statement 
from any patient with reference to any

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illness or personal injury for which the patient is receiving care or 
treatment therein. No patient is prohibited by this section from 
communicating on his own behalf with an attorney of his choice or with 
other persons.