17 C.F.R. § 12.10 Service.
Title 17 - Commodity and Securities Exchanges
(a) General requirements—(1) When service is required; number of copies. One copy of all motions, petitions or applications made in the course of a proceeding (unless made orally during a hearing), all proposed findings and conclusions (to the extent permitted by these rules), all notices of appeal, all briefs, and letters to the Commission, an employee thereof, or an Administrative Law Judge, shall be served by a party upon all other parties to the proceeding. This rule does not apply to a complaint filed pursuant to §12.13 of these rules, which shall only be filed with the Commission. (2) Filing with the Proceedings Clerk; proof of service. All documents which are required to be served upon a party shall be filed concurrently with the Proceedings Clerk, and shall meet the requirements as to form prescribed by §§12.11 and 12.12 of these rules. Unless otherwise provided in these rules a document shall be filed by delivering it in person or by mailing it, by first-class mail, post-paid, addressed to: Proceedings Clerk, Office of Proceedings, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Three Lafayette Centre, 1155 21st Street, NW., Washington, DC 20581. To be timely filed a document must be delivered, or mailed, by first-class mail, to the Proceedings Clerk within the time prescribed for filing. Proof of filing shall be made by attaching to the document for filing an affidavit certifying that the attached document was deposited in the mail, with first-class postage prepaid, addressed to the Proceedings Clerk, Office of Proceedings, Three Lafayette Centre, 1155 21st Street, NW., Washington, DC 20581, on the date specified in the affidavit. Proof of service of a document shall be made by filing with the Proceedings Clerk, simultaneously with the filing of the required document, an affidavit of service executed by any person 18 years of age or older or a certificate of service executed by an attorney-at-law qualified to practice before the Commission. The proof of service shall identify the persons served, state that service has been made, set forth the date of service, and recite the manner of service. (3) Service of orders and decisions. A copy of all notices, rulings, opinions, and orders of the Proceedings Clerk, the Director of the Office of Proceedings, a Judgment Officer, Administrative Law Judge, the Deputy General Counsel for Opinions or the Commission shall be served by the Proceedings Clerk on each of the parties. (b) How service is made. Service shall be made either by personal service or by first-class mail. Service shall be complete at the time of personal service or upon deposit in the mails of a properly addressed and post-paid document. Where service is effected by mail, the time within which the person served may respond thereto shall be increased by five (5) days. For the purposes of this Rule, service of any document by the Proceedings Clerk upon the Commission shall be regarded as service by mail. (c) Designation of person to receive service. The first document filed in a proceeding by or on behalf of any party shall state on the first page thereof the name and post office address of the person who is authorized to receive service for him of all documents filed in the proceeding. Thereafter, service of documents shall be made upon the person authorized unless service on a different authorized person or on the party himself is ordered by a Judgment Officer, Administrative Law Judge or the Commission, or unless the person authorized is changed by the party upon due notice to all other parties. Parties shall file and serve notification of any changes in the information provided pursuant to this subparagraph as soon as practicable after the change occurs. [49 FR 6621, Feb. 22, 1984; 49 FR 15070, Apr. 17, 1984, as amended at 57 FR 20638, May 14, 1992; 59 FR 9636, Mar. 1, 1994; 60 FR 49335, Sept. 25, 1995]
Title 17: Commodity and Securities Exchanges
PART 12—RULES RELATING TO REPARATIONS
Subpart A—General Information and Preliminary Consideration of Pleadings
§ 12.10 Service.
