[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 24, Volume 1]
[Revised as of April 1, 2003]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 24CFR15.202]

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                 TITLE 24--HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT
 
PART 15--PUBLIC ACCESS TO HUD RECORDS UNDER THE FREEDOM OF INFORMATION ACT AND TESTIMONY AND PRODUCTION OF INFORMATION BY HUD EMPLOYEES--Table of Contents
 
 Subpart C--Production in Response to Subpoenas or Demands of Courts or 
                            Other Authorities
 
Sec. 15.202  Production or disclosure prohibited unless approved by the Secretary.

    (a) Any demand of a court or other authority or any request to an 
employee of the Department to produce any material contained in the 
files of the Department, or to disclose any information relating to 
material contained in the files of the Department, or to disclose any 
information or produce any material acquired as a part of the 
performance of the employee's official duties or because of the 
employee's official status for use in a legal proceeding, shall state 
with particularity the material sought to be obtained or the information 
sought to be disclosed.
    (b) No employee of the Department shall comply with any such demand 
or request without the prior approval of the Secretary.
    (c) In determining whether to grant approval for an employee of the 
Department to testify in a legal proceeding, the Secretary shall follow 
the standards set forth in subpart I.
    (d) Where the demand or request seeks only the production of 
documents, the Department's procedure for authentricating documents by a 
keeper of the records shall be the Department's method for response. 
That authentication shall be evidence that the documents are true copies 
of documents in the Department's files.

[52 FR 12160, Apr. 15, 1987]