---
kind: "section"
citation: "9 C.F.R. § 12.10"
title: "9"
number: "12.10"
heading: "Stipulations."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/9/12.10"
---

# §12.10. Stipulations.

- (a) At any time prior to the issuance of a complaint seeking a civil penalty under the Act, the Administrator, in his discretion, may enter into a stipulation with any person in which:
  - (1) The Administration gives notice of an apparent violation of the Act or the regulations issued thereunder by such person and affords such person an opportunity for a hearing regarding the matter as provided by the Act;
  - (2) Such person expressly waives hearing and agrees to a specified order including an agreement to pay a specified civil penalty within a designated time; and
  - (3) The Administrator agrees to accept the specified order including a civil penalty in settlement of the particular matter involved if it is paid within the designated time.
- (b) If the specified penalty is not paid within the time designated in such a stipulation, the amount of the stipulated penalty shall not be relevant in any respect to the penalty which may be assessed after issuance of a complaint.

## Notes

### Amendments

[42 FR 10960, Feb. 25, 1977, as amended at 68 FR 6342, Feb. 7, 2003]

### Authority

Authority: 15 U.S.C. 1825 and 1828; 7 CFR 2.22, 2.80, and 371.7.

### Amendments

[42 FR 10960, Feb. 25, 1977, as amended at 68 FR 6342, Feb. 7, 2003]