---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 C.F.R. § 552.14"
title: "28"
number: "552.14"
heading: "Search of inmate housing and work areas."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/28/552.14"
---

# §552.14. Search of inmate housing and work areas.

- (a) Staff may search an inmate's housing and work area, and personal items contained within those areas, without notice to or prior approval from the inmate and without the inmate's presence.
- (b) Staff conducting the search shall leave the housing or work area as nearly as practicable in its original order.

## Notes

### Amendments

[45 FR 75134, Nov. 13, 1980. Redesignated at 56 FR 21036, May 6, 1991]

### Source

Source: 45 FR 75134, Nov. 13, 1980, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 18 U.S.C. 3621, 3622, 3624, 4001, 4042, 4081, 4082 (Repealed in part as to offenses committed on or after November 1, 1987), 5006-5024 (Repealed October 12, 1984, as to offenses committed after that date), 5039; 28 U.S.C. 509, 510.

### Source

Source: 45 FR 33941, May 20, 1980, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[45 FR 75134, Nov. 13, 1980. Redesignated at 56 FR 21036, May 6, 1991]