---
kind: "section"
citation: "18 C.F.R. § 385.2102"
title: "18"
number: "385.2102"
heading: "Suspension (Rule 2102)."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/18/385.2102"
---

# §385.2102. Suspension (Rule 2102).

- (a) After a hearing the Commission may disqualify and deny, temporarily or permanently, the privilege of appearing or practicing before it in any way to a person who is found:
  - (1) Not to possess the requisite qualifications to represent others, or
  - (2) To have engaged in unethical or improper professional conduct, or
  - (3) **Otherwise to be not qualified.**
- (b) Contumacious conduct in a hearing before the Commission or a presiding officer will be grounds for exclusion of any person from such hearing and for summary suspension for the duration of the hearing by the Commission or the presiding officer.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 551-557; 15 U.S.C. 717-717w, 3301-3432; 16 U.S.C. 791a-825v, 2601-2645; 28 U.S.C. 2461; 31 U.S.C 3701, 9701; 42 U.S.C. 7101-7352, 16441, 16451-16463; 49 U.S.C. 60502; 49 App. U.S.C. 1-85 (1988); 28 U.S.C. 2461 note (1990); 28 U.S.C. 2461 note (2015).

### Source

Source: Order 225, 47 FR 19022, May 3, 1982, unless otherwise noted.