[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 5, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2006]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 5CFR581.303]

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                    TITLE 5--ADMINISTRATIVE PERSONNEL
 
                CHAPTER I--OFFICE OF PERSONNEL MANAGEMENT
 
PART 581_PROCESSING GARNISHMENT ORDERS FOR CHILD SUPPORT AND/OR ALIMONY
--Table of Contents
 
                    Subpart C_Compliance With Process
 
Sec. 581.303  Response to legal process or interrogatories.

    (a) Whenever the designated agent is validly served with legal 
process pursuant to State procedures in effect pursuant to subjection 
(a)(1) or (b) of section 666 of title 42, United States Code, within 30 
calendar days, or within such longer period as may be prescribed by 
applicable State law, the agent shall

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comply with all applicable provisions of section 666, including as 
follows:
    (1) If an agent is served with notice concerning amounts owed by an 
obligor to more than one person, the agent shall comply with section 
666(b)(7);
    (2) Allocation of moneys due and payable to an individual under 
section 666(b) shall be governed by section 666(b) and the regulations 
prescribed under such section by the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services;
    (3) Such moneys as remain after compliance with paragraphs (a)(1) 
and (a)(2) of this section shall be available to satisfy any other such 
legal process on a first-come, first-served basis, with any such legal 
process being satisfied out of such moneys as remain after the 
satisfaction of all such legal process which have been previously 
served.
    (4) The agent or the agent's counsel or other designee shall respond 
within 30 calendar days to interrogatories which accompany legal process 
if the information sought in the interrogatory is not available to the 
entity to which it was sent, and the proper entity is known, the 
recipient shall forward the interrogatory to the appropriate entity in 
sufficient time to allow for a timely response.
    (b) If State or local law authorizes the issuance of interrogatories 
prior to or after the issuance of legal process, the agent shall respond 
to the interrogatories within thirty (30) calendar days after receipt: 
Provided, That the document(s) required by Sec. 581.202(c) have been 
presented.

[45 FR 85667, Dec. 30, 1980, as amended at 63 FR 14759, Mar. 26, 1998]