---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 13.203"
title: "14"
number: "13.203"
heading: "Separation of functions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/13.203"
---

# §13.203. Separation of functions.

- (a) **Civil penalty proceedings, including hearings, are prosecuted by an agency attorney.**
- (b) An agency employee who has engaged in the performance of investigative or prosecutorial functions in a civil penalty action must not participate in deciding or advising the administrative law judge or the FAA decisionmaker in that case, or a factually-related case, but may participate as counsel for the complainant or as a witness in the public proceedings.
- (c) The Chief Counsel and the Director and legal personnel of the Office of Adjudication will advise the FAA decisionmaker regarding any appeal of an initial decision or order in a civil penalty action to the FAA decisionmaker.

## Notes

### Source

Source: Docket No. FAA-2018-1051; Amdt. No. 13-40, 86 FR 54538, Oct. 1, 2021, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 18 U.S.C. 6002; 28 U.S.C. 2461 note; 49 U.S.C. 106(g), 5121-5124, 40113-40114, 44103-44106, 44701-44704, 44709-44710, 44713, 44725, 44742, 44802 (note), 46101-46111, 46301, 46302 (for a violation of 49 U.S.C. 46504), 46304-46316, 46318-46320, 46501-46502, 46504, 46507, 47106, 47107, 47111, 47122, 47306, 47531-47532; 49 CFR 1.83.

### Source

Source: Docket No. 18884, 44 FR 63723, Nov. 5, 1979, unless otherwise noted.