4 Colo. Code Regs. § 723-1-1308
Current through Register Vol. 47, No. 20, October 25, 2024
Section 4 CCR 723-1-1308 - Responses: Generally - Complaints(a) A response may only be filed to: an application or petition, to the extent included in a notice of intervention or motion for permissive intervention; a complaint, or counterclaim or order to show cause, as provided in this rule and paragraphs 1302(g) and (h); a motion, as provided in rule 1400; or exceptions, as provided in rule 1505.(b) No response may be filed to an answer, response, or notice, except upon motion. Any motion for leave to file a response must demonstrate a material misrepresentation of a fact, an incorrect statement or error of law, or accident or surprise which ordinary prudence could not have guarded against. Motions for leave to file a response to applications for RRR are addressed in rule 1506.(c) The Commission may shorten or waive response time to a motion upon motion of a party or on its own motion upon a finding that time is of the essence or that the requested relief is unopposed. The Commission can act immediately where response time is waived and after the expiration of the shortened response time.(d) Except in an accelerated complaint proceeding, a party named as a respondent shall file a response within 20 days of being served with an order to satisfy or to answer the complaint. In an accelerated complaint proceeding, the respondent shall file a response within ten days after service of the order to satisfy or answer the complaint. A response to a complaint shall admit or deny with particularity each allegation of the complaint and shall separately state and number each affirmative defense. Where a complaint is filed by a regulated entity, the respondent may assert a counterclaim in its response. A counterclaim shall be answered within 20 days and is subject to a motion to dismiss as a complaint under paragraph (e) of this rule.(e) A respondent may file a motion to dismiss a complaint or a counterclaim prior to filing an answer. Unless the Commission orders otherwise, a motion to dismiss tolls the time to answer the complaint or counterclaim until 14 days after a decision denying the motion to dismiss. A motion to dismiss may be made on any of the following grounds: lack of jurisdiction over the subject matter; lack of jurisdiction over the person; insufficiency of process; insufficiency of service of process; insufficiency of signatures; failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted; or failure to join a party. No motion need be entertained regarding misjoinder of claims or misjoinder or nonjoinder of parties, and no claim need be dismissed because of the absence of direct damage to a party. No defense is waived by being joined with one or more other defenses in a motion to dismiss. Unless the Commission shortens the response time, rule 1400 governs response time to a motion to dismiss.(f) If a party fails to file timely a responsive pleading, to admit or deny an allegation in a complaint, or to raise an affirmative defense, the Commission may deem the party to have admitted such allegation or to have waived such affirmative defense and may grant any or all of the relief requested.38 CR 02, January 25, 2015, effective 2/14/201538 CR 20, October 25, 2015, effective 11/14/201543 CR 13, July 10, 2020, effective 7/30/202045 CR 07, April 10, 2022, effective 4/30/2022