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 Title 24 - Housing and Urban Development
 Subtitle A - Office of the Secretary, Department of Housing and Urban Development
 Part 15 - Public Access to HUD Records Under the Freedom of Information Act and Testimony and Production of Information by HUD Employees
 Subpart C - Production of Material or Provision of Testimony in Response to Demands in Legal Proceedings Among Private Litigants

§ 15.201 - Purpose and scope.  

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  • § 15.201 Purpose and scope.

    (a) This subpart contains the regulations of the Department concerning the procedures to be followed and standards to be applied when demand is issued in a legal proceeding among private litigants for the production or disclosure of any material, whether provided through production of material or provision of testimony.

    (b) This subpart does not apply to demands, which are covered by part 2004 of this title, for production of material in the files of the Office of Inspector General or provision of testimony by employees within the Office of Inspector General.

    (c) This subpart also provides guidance to persons engaged in private litigation, to which the United States is not a party, on the procedures to be followed when making a demand for documents or testimony on the Department of Housing and Urban Development. This subpart does not, and may not be relied upon to, create any affirmative right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable against HUD.

    [72 FR 8582, Feb. 26, 2007, as amended at 73 FR 72205, Nov. 26, 2008]