---
kind: "section"
citation: "28 C.F.R. § 811.5"
title: "28"
number: "811.5"
heading: "Commencement of the obligation to register."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/28/811.5"
---

# §811.5. Commencement of the obligation to register.

- (a) A sex offender's obligation to register starts when the sex offender is found guilty or not guilty by reason of insanity of a registration offense or is determined to be a sexual psychopath. However, CSOSA may suspend registration requirements during any period of time in which a sex offender is detained, incarcerated, confined, civilly committed, or hospitalized in a secure facility.
- (b) A sex offender must register if the sex offender is placed on probation, parole, supervised release, or convalescent leave, is conditionally or unconditionally released from a secure facility, is granted unaccompanied grounds privileges or other unaccompanied leave, absconds or escapes, is otherwise not detained, incarcerated, confined, civilly committed, or hospitalized in a secure facility, or enters the District of Columbia from another jurisdiction to live, reside, work, or attend school. Registration shall be effectuated as provided in [§ 811.7](/cfr/28/811.7.md) and may be carried out prior to the occurrence of a circumstance described in this paragraph, including the release of or granting of leave to a sex offender.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: DC ST sec. 24-133 and the District of Columbia Sex Offender Registration Act of 1999, D.C. Law 13-137.

### Source

Source: 67 FR 54095, Aug. 21, 2002, unless otherwise noted.