---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 3216"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "3216"
heading: "Employment of expediters and administrative employees"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/3216"
units:
  - "Chapter 38 — Public Works and Economic Development"
  - "Subchapter VI — Miscellaneous"
---

# §3216. Employment of expediters and administrative employees


Assistance shall not be provided by the [Secretary](/usc/42/3122.md?p=13) under this chapter to any business unless the [owners](/usc/42/13641.md?p=4), partners, or officers of the business—

- (1) certify to the [Secretary](/usc/42/3122.md?p=13) the names of any attorneys, agents, and other [persons](/usc/42/1320a–7k.md?p=d-4-C-i) engaged by or on behalf of the business for the purpose of expediting applications made to the [Secretary](/usc/42/3122.md?p=13) for assistance of any kind, under this chapter, and the fees paid or to be paid to the [person](/usc/42/1320a–7k.md?p=d-4-C-i) for expediting the applications; and
- (2) execute an [agreement](/usc/42/1320b–8.md?p=a-3-A) binding the business, for the 2-year period beginning on the date on which the assistance is provided by the [Secretary](/usc/42/3122.md?p=13) to the business, to refrain from employing, offering any [office](/usc/42/3058f.md?p=1) or employment to, or retaining for professional services, any [person](/usc/42/1320a–7k.md?p=d-4-C-i) who, on the date on which the assistance or any part of the assistance was provided, or within the 1-year period ending on that date—
  - (A) served as an officer, attorney, agent, or [employee](/usc/42/1320a–7h.md?p=e-7) of the [Department](/usc/42/3122.md?p=4); and
  - (B) occupied a position or engaged in activities that the [Secretary](/usc/42/3122.md?p=13) determines involved discretion with respect to the granting of assistance under this chapter.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 89–136, title VI, § 606, as added Pub. L. 105–393, title I, § 102(a), Nov. 13, 1998, 112 Stat. 3615.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Prior Provisions

A prior section 3216, Pub. L. 89–136, title VII, § 706, Aug. 26, 1965, 79 Stat. 573, defined terms as used in this chapter, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 105–393, § 102(b)(3).

### Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

### Effective Date

Section effective Feb. 11, 1999, see section 105 of Pub. L. 105–393, set out as a note under section 3121 of this title.