---
kind: "section"
citation: "12 C.F.R. § 269b.220"
title: "12"
number: "269b.220"
heading: "Priority; acceleration of proceedings."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/12/269b.220"
---

# §269b.220. Priority; acceleration of proceedings.

- (a) A charge of “refusal to bargain” or a charge that, if sustained, would require the setting aside of an election or the conduct of a new election shall be given priority.
- (b) The parties, individually or jointly, may petition the panel at any time to invoke immediately the formal hearing procedures set forth in [§ 269b.410](/cfr/12/269b.410.md). They may also petition the panel to entertain the matter itself without prior investigation and/or without the formal hearing procedure set forth in [§ 269b.410](/cfr/12/269b.410.md). The panel is empowered also on its own motion to so accelerate disposition of the case.
- (c) Before accelerating a case the panel may utilize whatever proceedings it may deem appropriate and timely to allow parties in interest to comment on the proposed course of action.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Sec. 11, 38 Stat. 261 (12 U.S.C. 248).

### Source

Source: 35 FR 8920, June 10, 1970, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 48 FR 32334, July 15, 1983.