---
kind: "section"
citation: "32 C.F.R. § 234.6"
title: "32"
number: "234.6"
heading: "Interfering with agency functions."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/32/234.6"
---

# §234.6. Interfering with agency functions.


The following are prohibited:

- (a) **Interference.** Threatening, resisting, intimidating, or intentionally interfering with a government employee or agent engaged in an official duty, or on account of the performance of an official duty.
- (b) **Violation of a lawful order.** Violating the lawful order of a government employee or agent authorized to maintain order and control public access and movement during fire fighting operations, search and rescue operations, law enforcement actions, and emergency operations that involve a threat to public safety or government resources, or other activities where the control of public movement and activities is necessary to maintain order and public health or safety.
- (c) **False information.** Knowingly giving a false or fictitious report or other false information:
  - (1) To an authorized person investigating an accident or violation of law or regulation, or
  - (2) **On an application for a permit.**
- (d) **False report.** Knowingly giving a false report for the purpose of misleading a government employee or agent in the conduct of official duties, or making a false report that causes a response by the government to a fictitious event.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 10 U.S.C. 131 and 2674(c).

### Source

Source: 72 FR 29251, May 25, 2007, unless otherwise noted.