---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 C.F.R. § 906.5"
title: "15"
number: "906.5"
heading: "Service."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/15/906.5"
---

# §906.5. Service.

- (a) **Service refers to providing documents to parties to an appeal.**
  - (1) Service of documents may be made by first class mail (postage prepaid), facsimile, or commercial carrier, or by personal delivery to a party's address of record.
  - (2) Service of documents will be considered effective upon the date of postmark (or as otherwise shown for government-franked mail), facsimile transmission, delivery to a commercial carrier, or upon personal delivery.
- (b) A party shall serve a copy of all documents to all other parties and shall file a copy of all documents with NAO the same business day.
- (c) NAO may serve documents by electronic mail.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.; 16 U.S.C. 1374, 1375 and 1416; 16 U.S.C. 1540; 16 U.S.C. 773f; 16 U.S.C. 973f; 16 U.S.C. 1174; 16 U.S.C. 2437; 16 U.S.C. 4013; 16 U.S.C. 5507; 16 U.S.C. 7009; 16 U.S.C. 3637; 16 U.S.C. 5103 and 5106; 16 U.S.C. 5154 and 5158; 16 U.S.C. 6905, and; 16 U.S.C. 5010.

### Source

Source: 79 FR 7060, Feb. 6, 2014, unless otherwise noted.