[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 14, Volume 4]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

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

[CITE: 14CFR300.1]



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                     TITLE 14--AERONAUTICS AND SPACE

 

   CHAPTER II--OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY, DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

                         (AVIATION PROCEEDINGS)

 

PART 300_RULES OF CONDUCT IN DOT PROCEEDINGS UNDER THIS CHAPTER--Table 

of Contents

 

Sec. 300.1  Judicial standards of practice.



    Certain of DOT's functions involving aviation economic and 

enforcement proceedings are similar to those of a court, and parties to 

cases before DOT and those who represent such parties are expected--in 

fact and in appearance--to conduct themselves with honor and dignity as 

they would before a court. By the same token, any DOT employee or 

administrative law judge carrying out DOT's quasi-judicial functions and 

any DOT employee making recommendations or advising them are expected to 

conduct themselves with the same fidelity to appropriate standards of 

propriety that characterize a court and its staff. The standing and 

effectiveness of DOT in carrying out its quasi-judicial functions are in 

direct relation to the observance by DOT,



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DOT employees, and the parties and attorneys appearing before DOT of the 

highest standards of judicial and professional ethics. The rules of 

conduct set forth in this part are to be interpreted in light of those 

standards.



[Docket No. 82, 50 FR 2380, Jan. 16, 1985, as amended at 60 FR 43528, 

Aug. 22, 1995]