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[CITE: 28USC3004]

 
               TITLE 28--JUDICIARY AND JUDICIAL PROCEDURE
 
                     PART VI--PARTICULAR PROCEEDINGS
 
             CHAPTER 176--FEDERAL DEBT COLLECTION PROCEDURE
 
            SUBCHAPTER A--DEFINITIONS AND GENERAL PROVISIONS
 
Sec. 3004. Service of process; enforcement; notice

    (a) Manner of Service.--A complaint, notice, writ, or other process 
required to be served in an action or proceeding under this chapter 
shall be served in accordance with the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 
unless otherwise provided in this chapter.
    (b) Nationwide Enforcement.--(1) Except as provided in paragraph 
(2)--
        (A) any writ, order, judgment, or other process, including a 
    summons and complaint, filed under this chapter may be served in any 
    State; and
        (B) such writ, order, or judgment may be enforced by the court 
    issuing the writ, order, or process, regardless of where the person 
    is served with the writ, order, or process.

    (2) If the debtor so requests, within 20 days after receiving the 
notice described in section 3101(d) or 3202(b), the action or proceeding 
in which the writ, order, or judgment was issued shall be transferred to 
the district court for the district in which the debtor resides.
    (c) Notice and Other Process.--At such time as counsel for the 
United States considers appropriate, but not later than the time a 
prejudgment or postjudgment remedy is put into effect under this 
chapter, counsel for the United States shall exercise reasonable 
diligence to serve on the debtor and any person who the United States 
believes, after exercising due diligence, has possession, custody, or 
control of the property, a copy of the application for such remedy, the 
order granting such remedy, and the notice required by section 3101(d) 
or 3202(b).

(Added Pub. L. 101-647, title XXXVI, Sec. 3611, Nov. 29, 1990, 104 Stat. 
4936.)

                       References in Text

    The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, referred to in subsec. (a), 
are set out in the Appendix to this title.
