Sec.46a-54-38a. Complaint - amendment

(a) A complaint, or any part thereof, may be fairly and reasonably amended as a matter of right at any time before the appointment of a presiding officer.

(b) A complaint may be amended to restate its contents on a commission complaint form, to cure technical defects and omissions or to clarify and amplify allegations made therein. Such amendments and amendments alleging additional acts that constitute discriminatory practices which are reasonably like or related to or growing out of the allegations of the original complaint, including those facts discovered during the investigation of the original complaint, and including additional protected class status or naming additional respondents who have had notice of the complaint, relate back to the date the complaint was first received.

(c) After the commission receives a sworn amendment to the complaint, the amended complaint shall be served upon the respondent. Amendments adding an additional respondent shall be served not later than twenty (20) days after receipt.

(Adopted effective November 4, 2002)