NAC228.380. Captions, amendments and construction of pleadings.

     1. Pleadings before the Committee, including a request for a declaratory order, an advisory opinion or the adoption, filing, amendment or repeal of a regulation, must:

     (a) Bear the caption “Before the Committee on Domestic Violence in the matter of”; and

     (b) Be signed by the party who submits the pleading or his or her legal representative.

     2. A request for action by the Committee, other than for an action set forth in subsection 1, must include the full name and mailing address of the person who makes the request and be signed by that person.

     3. The Committee may, if substantial rights of the parties are not violated, allow any pleading to be amended or corrected, or allow any omission to be supplied.

     4. All pleadings will be liberally construed with a view to effect justice between the parties. The Committee or presiding officer will, at every stage of any proceeding, disregard errors or defects in the pleadings or proceedings that do not affect the substantial rights of the parties.

     (Added to NAC by Com. on Domestic Violence by R161-97, eff. 1-6-98; A by R213-99, 8-1-2000)