---
kind: "section"
citation: "49 C.F.R. § 389.27"
title: "49"
number: "389.27"
heading: "Hearings."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/49/389.27"
---

# §389.27. Hearings.

- (a) **Sections 556 and 557 of title 5, United States Code, do not apply to hearings held under this part.** Unless otherwise specified, hearings held under this part are informal, nonadversary, fact-finding procedures at which there are no formal pleadings or adverse parties. Any rule issued in a case in which an informal hearing is held is not necessarily based exclusively on the record of the hearing.
- (b) **The Administrator designates a representative to conduct any hearing held under this part.** The Chief Counsel of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration designates a member of his/her staff to serve as legal officer at the hearing.

## Notes

### Amendments

[35 FR 9209, June 12, 1970, as amended at 53 FR 2036, Jan. 26, 1988]

### Authority

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 113, 501 et seq. , subchapters I and III of chapter 311, chapter 313, and 31502; sec. 5204 of Pub. L. 114-94, 129 Stat. 1312, 1536; 42 U.S.C. 4917; and 49 CFR 1.87

### Source

Source: 35 FR 9209, June 12, 1970, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[35 FR 9209, June 12, 1970, as amended at 53 FR 2036, Jan. 26, 1988]