---
kind: "section"
citation: "29 C.F.R. § 26.4"
title: "29"
number: "26.4"
heading: "Service."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/29/26.4"
---

# §26.4. Service.

- (a) **Electronic service.** Electronic service may be completed by
  - (1) Electronic mail, if consented to in writing by the person served; or
  - (2) Sending it to a user registered with the Department's electronic case management system by filing via this system. A person who registers to use the Department's case management system is deemed to have consented to accept service through the system.
- (b) **Non-electronic service.** Unless otherwise provided by statute, regulation, executive order, or judge's order, non-electronic service may be completed by:
  - (1) Personal delivery;
  - (2) Mail; or
  - (3) **Commercial delivery.**
- (c) **When service is effected.** Unless otherwise provided by statute, regulation, executive order, or judge's order,
  - (1) **Service by personal delivery is effected on the date the document is delivered to the recipient.**
  - (2) **Service by mail or commercial carrier is effected on mailing or delivery to the carrier.**
  - (3) Service by electronic means is effected on sending.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: Secretary's Order 01-2020, 85 FR 13186 (March 6, 2020).

### Source

Source: 86 FR 1782, Jan. 11, 2021, unless otherwise noted.