29 CFR § 102.126 - Unauthorized communications.
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identifier: "/us/cfr/t29/s102.126"
source: "ecfr"
legal_status: "authoritative_unofficial"
title: "29 CFR § 102.126 - Unauthorized communications."
title_number: 29
title_name: "Labor"
section_number: "102.126"
section_name: "Unauthorized communications."
chapter_name: "NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS BOARD"
part_number: "102"
part_name: "RULES AND REGULATIONS, SERIES 8"
positive_law: false
currency: "2026-04-05"
last_updated: "2026-04-05"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
authority: "29 U.S.C. 151, 156. Section 102.117 also issued under 5 U.S.C. 552(a)(4)(A), and § 102.119 also issued under 5 U.S.C. 552a(j) and (k). Sections 102.143 through 102.155 also issued under 5 U.S.C. 504(c)(1)."
regulatory_source: "24 FR 9102, Nov. 7, 1959, unless otherwise noted."
cfr_part: "102"
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# 102.126 Unauthorized communications.
(a) No interested person outside this Agency may, in an on-the-record proceeding of the types defined in § 102.128, make or knowingly cause to be made any prohibited *ex parte* communication to Board agents of the categories designated in that Section relevant to the merits of the proceeding.
(b) No Board agent of the categories defined in § 102.128, participating in a particular proceeding as defined in that section, may:
(i) Request any prohibited *ex parte* communications; or
(ii) Make or knowingly cause to be made any prohibited *ex parte* communications about the proceeding to any interested person outside this Agency relevant to the merits of the proceeding.
[82 FR 11778, Feb. 24, 2017]