---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 C.F.R. § 58.18"
title: "28"
number: "58.18"
heading: "Mandatory duty of approved agencies to obtain prior consent of the United States Trustee before taking certain actions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/28/58.18"
---

# §58.18. Mandatory duty of approved agencies to obtain prior consent of the United States Trustee before taking certain actions.

- (a) By accepting the designation to act as an approved agency, an agency agrees to obtain approval from the United States Trustee, prior to making any of the following changes:
  - (1) Cancellation or change in the amount of the surety bond or employee fidelity bond or insurance;
  - (2) The engagement of an independent contractor to provide counseling services or to have access to, possession of, or control over client funds;
  - (3) Any increase in the fees, contributions, or payments received from clients for counseling services or a change in the agency's fee policy;
  - (4) Expansion into additional federal judicial districts;
  - (5) Any changes to the method of delivery the approved agency employs to provide counseling services; or
  - (6) **Any changes in the approved agency's counseling services.**
- (b) An agency applying to become an approved agency shall also obtain approval from the United States Trustee before taking any action specified in [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section. It shall do so by submitting an amended application. The agency's amended application shall be accompanied by a contemporaneously executed writing, signed by the signatory of the application, that makes the certifications specified in [§ 58.13(e)](/cfr/28/58.13.md?p=e).
- (c) An approved agency shall not transfer or assign its United States Trustee approval to act as an approved agency.

## Notes

### Amendments

[78 FR 16153, Mar. 14, 2013]

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301, 552; 11 U.S.C. 109(h), 111, 521(b), 727(a)(11), 1141(d)(3), 1202; 1302, 1328(g); 28 U.S.C. 509, 510, 586, 589b.

### Source

Source: Order No. 921-80, 45 FR 82631, Dec. 16, 1980, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[78 FR 16153, Mar. 14, 2013]