[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 24, Volume 1]

[Revised as of April 1, 2006]

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 authenticating 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]