Kan. Admin. Regs. § 19-1-5

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 49, December 5, 2024

Section 19-1-5 - Pleadings or other documents filed with the commission

(a) General. All pleadings or other documents shall be mailed first-class with postage prepaid or delivered personally to the office of the commission. The pleadings or other documents shall clearly designate the file number, if any, designated by the commission; state a document title where appropriate; indicate their purpose, identify any commission document to which they are in response, and state the name, address and title of the party or petitioner.

(b) Noncompliance and rejection. In any proceeding when the commission finds a pleading or other document does not comply with these rules, the commission shall:

(1) decline to accept the document for filing and return it, or

(2) accept it for filing and make procedural corrections, or

(3) accept it for filing and advise the person tendering it of the deficiency and require that the deficiency be corrected.

(c) The commission may order any redundant, immaterial, impertinent, or scandalous matter stricken from any document filed.

(d) Signature and effect. Each pleading or other document shall be signed by the petitioner or interested party or by his or her attorney, and shall show the office and post-office address. The signature of the person on any pleading or document filed constitutes a certificate that the person:

(1) has read it, and knows the contents;

(2) executing the pleading or other document, if executed in any representative capacity, has been subscribed and executed in the capacity specified upon it with full power and authority so to do;

(3) believes the contents to be true as stated.

Kan. Admin. Regs. § 19-1-5

Authorized by K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 25-4119a, 46-253; implementing K.S.A. 1980 Supp. 25-4121, 46-255; effective, E-76-52, Oct. 24, 1975; effective, E-77-20, May 1, 1976; effective Feb. 15, 1977; amended May 1, 1980; amended May 1, 1981.