---
kind: "section"
citation: "20 C.F.R. § 702.340"
title: "20"
number: "702.340"
heading: "Formal hearings; witnesses."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/20/702.340"
---

# §702.340. Formal hearings; witnesses.

- (a) Witnesses at the hearing shall testify under oath or affirmation. The administrative law judge may examine the witnesses and shall allow the parties or their representatives to do so.
- (b) No person shall be required to attend as a witness in any proceeding before an administrative law judge at a place more than 100 miles from his place of residence, unless his lawful mileage and fees for one day's attendance shall be paid or tendered to him in advance of the hearing date.

## Notes

### 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.