24 CFR § 291.520 - Eligible law enforcement officers.

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identifier: "/us/cfr/t24/s291.520"
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title: "24 CFR § 291.520 - Eligible law enforcement officers."
title_number: 24
title_name: "Housing and Urban Development"
section_number: "291.520"
section_name: "Eligible law enforcement officers."
chapter_name: "OFFICE OF ASSISTANT SECRETARY FOR HOUSING—FEDERAL HOUSING COMMISSIONER, DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT"
subchapter_number: "I"
subchapter_name: "HUD-OWNED PROPERTIES"
part_number: "291"
part_name: "DISPOSITION OF HUD-ACQUIRED AND -OWNED SINGLE FAMILY PROPERTY"
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authority: "12 U.S.C. 1701  42 U.S.C. 1441, 1441a, 1551a, and 3535(d)."
regulatory_source: "56 FR 46956, Sept. 16, 1991, unless otherwise noted."
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# 291.520 Eligible law enforcement officers.

A person qualifies as a law enforcement officer for the purposes of the GNND Sales Program if the person is:

(a) Employed full-time by a law enforcement agency of the federal government, a state, a unit of general local government, or an Indian tribal government;

(b) In carrying out such full-time employment, the person is sworn to uphold, and make arrests for violations of, federal, state, tribal, county, township, or municipal laws and

(c) The full-time employment in paragraph (a) of this section must, in the normal course of business, directly serve the locality in which the home is located.

[71 FR 64426, Nov. 1, 2006, as amended at 81 FR 53003, Aug. 11, 2016]