---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 702.205"
title: "20"
number: "702.205"
heading: "Employer's report; effect of failure to report upon time limitations."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/702.205"
---

# §702.205. Employer's report; effect of failure to report upon time limitations.


Where the employer, or agent in charge of the business, or carrier has been given notice or has knowledge of an employee's injury or death, and fails, neglects, or refuses to file a report thereof as required by [§ 702.201](/cfr/20/702.201.md), the time limitations provisions with respect to the filing of claims for compensation for disability or death ([33 U.S.C. 913(a)](/usc/33/913.md?p=a), and see [§ 702.221](/cfr/20/702.221.md)) shall not begin to run until such report shall have been furnished as required herein.


## Notes

### Amendments

[38 FR 26861, Sept. 26, 1973, as amended at 50 FR 397, Jan. 3, 1985]

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301, and 8171 et seq.; 33 U.S.C. 901 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. 1651 et seq.; 43 U.S.C. 1333; 28 U.S.C. 2461 note (Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990); Pub. L. 114-74 at sec. 701; Reorganization Plan No. 6 of 1950, 15 FR 3174, 64 Stat. 1263; Secretary's Order 10-2009, 74 FR 58834.

### Source

Source: 38 FR 26861, Sept. 26, 1973, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[38 FR 26861, Sept. 26, 1973, as amended at 50 FR 397, Jan. 3, 1985]