---
kind: "section"
citation: "31 U.S.C. § 3809"
title: "31"
title_heading: "Money and Finance"
number: "3809"
heading: "Regulations"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/31/3809"
units:
  - "Subtitle III — Financial Management"
  - "Chapter 38 — Administrative Remedies for False Claims and Statements"
---

# §3809. Regulations


Within 180 days after the date of enactment of this chapter, each [authority head](/usc/31/3801.md?p=a-2) shall promulgate rules and regulations necessary to implement the provisions of this chapter. Such rules and regulations shall—

- (1) ensure that [investigating officials](/usc/31/3801.md?p=a-4) and [reviewing officials](/usc/31/3801.md?p=a-8) are not responsible for conducting the hearing required in [section 3803(f) of this title](/usc/31/3803.md?p=f), making the determinations required by subsections (f) and (h) of [section 3803 of this title](/usc/31/3803.md), or making collections under [section 3806 of this title](/usc/31/3806.md); and
- (2) require a [reviewing official](/usc/31/3801.md?p=a-8) to include in any notice required by [section 3803(a)(2) of this title](/usc/31/3803.md?p=a-2) a [statement](/usc/31/3801.md?p=a-9) which specifies that the [reviewing official](/usc/31/3801.md?p=a-8) has determined that there is a reasonable prospect of collecting, from a [person](/usc/31/3701.md?p=c) with respect to whom the [reviewing official](/usc/31/3801.md?p=a-8) is referring allegations of liability in such notice, the amount for which such [person](/usc/31/3701.md?p=c) may be liable.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 99–509, title VI, § 6103(a), Oct. 21, 1986, 100 Stat. 1947.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

The date of enactment of this chapter, referred to in text, means the date of enactment of Pub. L. 99–509 which was approved Oct. 21, 1986.