PART 185--TESTIMONY BY EMPLOYEES AND PRODUCTION OF RECORDS IN LEGAL
             PROCEEDINGS, AND SERVICE OF LEGAL PROCESS AND PLEADINGS
  
  Sec.
  185.1  Purpose.
  185.3  Acceptance of service on behalf of the Secretary of Transportation or
      the Administrator.
  185.5  Testimony by employees and production of records in legal proceedings.
  
    Authority: Secs. 303, 313, 72 Stat. 747, 752; 49 U.S.C. 1344, 1354, 1655;
  Part 9 of the regulations of the Office of the Secretary of Transportation
  (49 CFR Part 9) as amended (34 FR 11972).
  
    Source: Docket No. 9900, 34 FR 16622, Oct. 17, 1969, unless otherwise
  noted.

  Sec. 185.1   Purpose.
  
    (a) The purpose of this part is to name the FAA officials who, pursuant to
  Part 9 of the regulations of the Office of the Secretary of Transportation
  (49 CFR Part 9) as amended (34 FR 11972, July 16, 1969), are those:
    (1) Upon whom legal process or pleadings may be served in any legal
  proceeding concerning the FAA, and who have authority to acknowledge the
  service and take further action thereon; and
    (2) Who otherwise perform the functions prescribed by Part 9 in legal
  proceedings concerning the FAA with respect to testimony by FAA employees and
  production of FAA records in legal proceedings.
    (b) For purposes of this part, "legal proceedings" includes any proceeding
  before a court of law, administrative board or commission, hearing officer,
  or other body conducting a legal or administrative proceeding.


  Sec. 185.3   Acceptance of service on behalf of the Secretary of
      Transportation or the Administrator.
  
    Legal process or pleadings in any legal proceeding concerning the FAA may
  be served, at the option of the server, on the Chief Counsel, Deputy Chief
  Counsel, Assistant Chief Counsel, Litigation Division, of the FAA, or any
  other FAA official designated by the Chief Counsel, with the same effect as
  if served upon the Secretary of Transportation or the Administrator. The
  official accepting the service under this section acknowledges the service
  and takes further action as appropriate.

  Sec. 185.5   Testimony by employees and production of records in legal
      proceedings.
  
    The Chief Counsel, and each Assistant Chief Councel, the Assistant Chief
  Councel for the Aeronautical Center, and the Assistant Chief Councel for the
  Technical Center, with respect to matters arising within his respective
  jurisdiction, and any other FAA official designated by the Chief Counsel,
  perform the functions in legal proceedings (other than one described in Sec.
  185.3 of this part) as prescribed by Part 9 of the regulations of the Office
  of the Secretary of Transportation, with respect to testimony by FAA
  employees and production of FAA records in legal proceedings.
  
  [Doc. No. 9900, 34 FR 16622, Oct. 17, 1969, as amended by Amdt. 185-1, 54 FR
  39296, Sept. 25, 1989]