---
kind: "section"
citation: "38 C.F.R. § 18b.15"
title: "38"
number: "18b.15"
heading: "Exclusion from hearing for misconduct."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/38/18b.15"
---

# §18b.15. Exclusion from hearing for misconduct.


Disrespectful, disorderly, or contumacious language or contemptuous conduct, refusal to comply with directions, or continued use of dilatory tactics by any person at any hearing before a presiding officer shall constitute grounds for immediate exclusion of such person from the hearing by the presiding officer.


## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301, 38 U.S.C. 501 and 38 CFR 18.9(d) and appendix A, part 18.

### Source

Source: 35 FR 10760, July 2, 1970, unless otherwise noted.