---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 C.F.R. § 102.126"
title: "29"
number: "102.126"
heading: "Unauthorized communications."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/29/102.126"
---

# §102.126. Unauthorized communications.

- (a) No interested person outside this Agency may, in an on-the-record proceeding of the types defined in [§ 102.128](/cfr/29/102.128.md), make or knowingly cause to be made any prohibited ex parte communication to Board agents of the categories designated in that Section relevant to the merits of the proceeding.
- (b) No Board agent of the categories defined in [§ 102.128](/cfr/29/102.128.md), participating in a particular proceeding as defined in that section, may:
- (i) Request any prohibited ex parte communications; or
- (ii) Make or knowingly cause to be made any prohibited ex parte communications about the proceeding to any interested person outside this Agency relevant to the merits of the proceeding.

## Notes

### Amendments

[82 FR 11778, Feb. 24, 2017]

### Authority

Authority: Sec. 6, National Labor Relations Act, as amended (49 Stat. 452; 29 U.S.C. 156).

### Source

Source: 42 FR 13113, Mar. 8, 1977, unless otherwise noted.

### Authority

Authority: 29 U.S.C. 151, 156. Section 102.117 also issued under 5 U.S.C. 552(a)(4)(A), and § 102.119 also issued under 5 U.S.C. 552a(j) and (k). Sections 102.143 through 102.155 also issued under 5 U.S.C. 504(c)(1).

### Source

Source: 24 FR 9102, Nov. 7, 1959, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[82 FR 11778, Feb. 24, 2017]