Louisiana Administrative Code
Title 28 - EDUCATION
Part III - Proprietary Schools
Chapter 3 - Procedures
Subchapter B - Pleadings
Section III-303 - Petition to Adopt, Amend or Repeal a Rule

Universal Citation: LA Admin Code III-303

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

A. Petition to Adopt, Amend, or Repeal a Rule

1. A petition to adopt, amend, or repeal a rule shall be typed or printed on either standard letter size bond paper or on standard legal size bond paper;

2. the petition shall be dated and shall contain the following:
a. the title of the pleading (i.e., "petition");

b. the names of the petitioners;

c. the names of representatives and legal counselors of such petitioners (if applicable);

d. all pertinent allegations of fact, data, views, arguments and reasons supporting the action sought by the petition;

e. a statement or prayer expressing the exact action sought by the petition; and

f. the signatures of all petitioners, if individual, natural persons, or the signatures of duly qualified representatives of petitioner, if a governmental agency or subdivision or an association of persons;

3. the petition, in setting forth all pertinent allegations of fact, data, views, arguments, and reasons supporting the action sought by the petition, shall contain separate, numbered paragraphs, one for each fact, data, view, argument, and reason set forth;

4. the petition, in expressing the exact action sought by it, shall cite and quote the rule to be adopted, amended, or repealed; and if a rule is sought to be amended, the petition shall quote the rule as it would read after amendment, if it were in fact amended; and

5. only substantial compliance is necessary to meet the requirements of form, and to that end, the provisions of this section shall be liberally construed in favor of accepting the petition.

B. Other Pleadings. Pleadings of any type may be submitted to the commission. They shall be similar in form to that of petitions, except that they may exclude those things peculiar to petitions and shall include those things to which they pertain.

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 49:953.

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