[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 14, Volume 1]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 14CFR16.303]



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                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE

 

CHAPTER I--FEDERAL AVIATION ADMINISTRATION, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

 

PART 16_RULES OF PRACTICE FOR FEDERALLY-ASSISTED AIRPORT ENFORCEMENT 

PROCEEDINGS--Table of Contents

 

                    Subpart I_Ex Parte Communications

 

Sec. 16.303  Prohibited ex parte communications.



    (a) The prohibitions of this section shall apply from the time a 

proceeding is noticed for hearing unless the person responsible for the 

communication has knowledge that it will be noticed, in which case the 

prohibitions shall apply at the time of the acquisition of such 

knowledge.

    (b) Except to the extent required for the disposition of ex parte 

matters as authorized by law:

    (1) No interested person outside the FAA and no FAA employee 

participating as a party shall make or knowingly cause to be made to any



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decisional employee an ex parte communication relevant to the merits of 

the proceeding;

    (2) No FAA employee shall make or knowingly cause to be made to any 

interested person outside the FAA an ex parte communication relevant to 

the merits of the proceeding; or

    (3) Ex parte communications regarding solely matters of agency 

procedure or practice are not prohibited by this section.