Or. Admin. Code § 839-050-0130 - Responsive Pleadings

(1) A party filing a written request for a hearing must file a written response, referred to as an "answer," to the allegations in the charging document. The answer must be sent to the address indicated on the charging document. A party served with a Notice of Hearing and Formal Charges must file with the Contested Case Coordinator, at the address indicated on the Notice of Hearing, an answer to the allegations in the Formal Charges.

(2) The answer must include an admission or denial of each factual matter alleged in the charging document and a statement of each relevant defense to the allegations. A general denial is not sufficient to constitute an answer. An answer not including the information required by this rule may be disregarded and a notice of default may be issued in accordance with OAR 839-050-0330, as if no answer had been filed.

(3) Except for good cause shown to the Administrative Law Judge, factual matters alleged in the charging document and not denied in the answer will be deemed admitted by the party. The failure of the party to raise an affirmative defense in the answer is a waiver of such defense, except as provided in OAR 839-050-0140(3). Any new facts or defenses alleged in the answer will be deemed denied by the Agency. Evidence will not be taken at the contested case hearing on any factual or legal issue not raised in the charging document or the answer as originally filed or as amended pursuant to OAR 839-050-0140.

(4) Except as may be otherwise provided in subsections (5), (6) and (7) of this rule, a party must file an answer within 20 days after service of the charging document.

(5) ORS 652.332 provides administrative procedures for wage claim collection.

(6) A party must file an answer within 60 days after service of the charging document if that document proposes to deny a license.

(7) A respondent or aggrieved person named in a complaint filed under ORS 659A.145 or 659A.421 or discrimination under federal housing law must file any election to have the matter heard in circuit court under ORS 659A.885, within 20 days after service of Formal Charges.

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Or. Admin. Code § 839-050-0130

BL 8-1986, f. & ef. 9-2-86; BL 4-1987, f. 2-11-87, ef. 2-13-87; BL 10-1988, f. & cert. ef. 6-16-88; BL 4-1993(Temp), f. 4-7-93, cert. ef. 4-12-93; BL 8-1993, f. & cert. ef. 9-3-93, Renumbered from 839-030-0060; BL 12-1996, f. & cert. ef. 12-10-96; BLI 2-2000, f. & cert. ef. 1-27-00; BLI 15-2004, f. 11-1-04, cert. ef. 11-3-04; BLI 12-2010, f. 3-1-10, cert. ef. 3-3-10; BLI 5-2014, f. & cert. ef. 4-15-14; BLI 8-2019, amend filed 07/01/2019, effective 7/1/2019

Statutory/Other Authority: ORS chapter 183 & ORS 651.060(4)

Statutes/Other Implemented: ORS 279C.860, 279C.865, 652.332(3), 653.065(1), 658.115, 658.407(3), 658.820, 659A.845, 659A.850 & 659A.870