---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 16.303"
title: "14"
number: "16.303"
heading: "Procedures for handling ex parte communications."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/16.303"
---

# §16.303. Procedures for handling ex parte communications.


A decisional employee who receives or who makes or knowingly causes to be made a communication prohibited by § 16.303 shall place in the public record of the proceeding:

- (a) All such written communications;
- (b) Memoranda stating the substance of all such oral communications; and
- (c) All written responses, and memoranda stating the substance of all oral responses, to the materials described in paragraphs [(a)](#a) and [(b)](#b) of this section.

## Notes

### Amendments

[Doc. No. 27783, 61 FR 54004, Oct. 16, 1996. Redesignated at Amdt. 16-1, 78 FR 56148, Sept. 12, 2013]

### Source

Source: Docket No. 27783, 61 FR 54004, Oct. 16, 1996, unless otherwise noted. Redesignated at 78 FR 56148, Sept. 12, 2013.

### 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.

### Amendments

[Doc. No. 27783, 61 FR 54004, Oct. 16, 1996. Redesignated at Amdt. 16-1, 78 FR 56148, Sept. 12, 2013]