TITLE 46 - SHIPPING

CHAPTER IV - FEDERAL MARITIME COMMISSION

SUBCHAPTER A - GENERAL AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS

PART 502 - RULES OF PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE

subpart e - PROCEEDINGS; PLEADINGS; MOTIONS; REPLIES

502.70 - Amendments or supplements to pleadings.

  (a) Amendments or supplements to any pleadings will be permitted or rejected, either in the discretion of the Commission if the case has not been assigned to a presiding officer for hearing, or otherwise, in the discretion of the officer designated to conduct the hearing, except that after a case is assigned for hearing, no amendment shall be allowed which would broaden the issues, without opportunity to reply to such amended pleading and to prepare for the broadened issues. The presiding officer may direct a party to state its case more fully and in more detail by way of amendment.

  (b) A response to an amended pleading must be filed and served in conformity with the requirements of subpart H of this part and 502.74, unless the Commission or the presiding officer directs otherwise.

Amendments or supplements allowed prior to hearing will be served in the same manner as the original pleading, except that the presiding officer may authorize the service of amended complaints directly by the parties rather than by the Secretary of the Commission.

  (c) Whenever by the rules in this part a pleading is required to be verified, the amendment or supplement shall also be verified. [Rule 70.] [49 FR 44369, Nov. 6, 1984, as amended at 58 FR 27210, May 7, 1993]