---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 16.217"
title: "14"
number: "16.217"
heading: "Witnesses."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/16.217"
---

# §16.217. Witnesses.

- (a) Each party may designate as a witness any person who is able and willing to give testimony that is relevant and material to the issues in the hearing case, subject to the limitation set forth in [paragraph (b)](#b) of this section.
- (b) The hearing officer may exclude testimony of witnesses that would be irrelevant, immaterial, or unduly repetitious.
- (c) Any witness may be accompanied by counsel. Counsel representing a nonparty witness has no right to examine the witness or otherwise participate in the development of testimony.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 106(g), 322, 1110, 1111, 1115, 1116, 1718(a) and (b), 1719, 1723, 1726, 1727, 40103(e), 40113, 40116, 44502(b), 46101, 46104, 46110, 47104, 47106(e), 47107, 47108, 47111(d), 47122, 47123-47125, 47133, 47151-47153, 48103.

### Source

Source: Docket No. 27783, 61 FR 54004, Oct. 16, 1996, unless otherwise noted.