Regulations last checked for updates: Mar 13, 2025

Title 38 - Pensions, Bonuses, and Veterans' Relief last revised: Feb 11, 2025
§ 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.

authority: 5 U.S.C. 301,38.S.C. 501 and 38 CFR 18.9(d) and appendix A, part 18
source: 35 FR 10760, July 2, 1970, unless otherwise noted.
cite as: 38 CFR 18b.15