---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 C.F.R. § 76.14"
title: "28"
number: "76.14"
heading: "Separation of functions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/28/76.14"
---

# §76.14. Separation of functions.


An employee or an agent of the Department who is or was engaged in investigative or prosecutive functions for or on behalf of the United States in a case may not participate in the decision of that case.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301; 21 U.S.C. 844a, 875, 876; 28 U.S.C. 509, 510,; Pub. L. 101-410, 104 Stat. 890, as amended by Pub. L. 104-134, 110 Stat. 1321.

### Source

Source: Order No. 1462-90, 56 FR 1089, Jan. 11, 1991, unless otherwise noted.