---
kind: "section"
citation: "14 C.F.R. § 404.19"
title: "14"
number: "404.19"
heading: "Hearings."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/14/404.19"
---

# §404.19. Hearings.

- (a) **Sections 556 and 557 of Title 5, United States Code, do not apply to hearings held under this part.** As a fact-finding forum, each hearing held under this part is nonadversarial and there are no formal pleadings or adverse parties. Any rule issued in a proceeding in which a hearing is held is not based exclusively on the record of the hearing, but on the entire record of the rulemaking proceeding.
- (b) **The Associate Administrator designates a representative to conduct any hearing held under this part.** The FAA Chief Counsel designates a legal officer for the hearing.

## Notes

### Amendments

[53 FR 11013, Apr. 4, 1988, as amended by Amdt. 404-2, 68 FR 35289, June 13, 2003]

### Authority

Authority: 51 U.S.C. 50901-50923.

### Source

Source: Docket No. 43810, 53 FR 11013, Apr. 4, 1988, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[53 FR 11013, Apr. 4, 1988, as amended by Amdt. 404-2, 68 FR 35289, June 13, 2003]