---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 C.F.R. § 51.64"
title: "28"
number: "51.64"
heading: "Bar to termination of coverage (bailout)."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/28/51.64"
---

# §51.64. Bar to termination of coverage (bailout).

- (a) Section 4(a) of the Act sets out the requirements for the termination of coverage (bailout) under [section 5](/cfr/28/5.md). See [§ 51.5](/cfr/28/51.5.md). Among the requirements for bailout is compliance with [section 5](/cfr/28/5.md), as described in [section 4(a)](/cfr/28/4.md?p=a), during the ten years preceding the filing of the bailout action and during its pendency.
- (b) In defending bailout actions, the Attorney General will not consider as a bar to bailout under [section 4(a)(1)(E)](/cfr/28/4.md?p=a-1-E) a [section 5](/cfr/28/5.md) objection to a submitted voting standard, practice, or procedure if the objection was subsequently withdrawn on the basis of a determination by the Attorney General that it had originally been interposed as a result of the Attorney General's misinterpretation of fact or mistake in the law, or if the unmodified voting standard, practice, or procedure that was the subject of the objection received [section 5](/cfr/28/5.md) preclearance by means of a declaratory judgment from the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
- (c) Notice will be given to interested parties registered under [§ 51.32](/cfr/28/51.32.md) when bailout actions are filed or decided.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 28 U.S.C. 509, 510, and 42 U.S.C. 1973b, 1973c.

### Source

Source: 52 FR 490, Jan. 6, 1987, unless otherwise noted.