---
kind: "section"
citation: "45 C.F.R. § 81.21"
title: "45"
number: "81.21"
heading: "Parties; General Counsel deemed a party."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/45/81.21"
---

# §81.21. Parties; General Counsel deemed a party.

- (a) The term party shall include an applicant or recipient or other person to whom a notice of hearing or opportunity for hearing has been mailed naming him a respondent.
- (b) The General Counsel of the Department of Health and Human Services shall be deemed a party to all proceedings.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 301 and 45 CFR 80.9(d).

### Source

Source: 32 FR 15156, Nov. 2, 1967, unless otherwise noted.