[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 9, Volume 2]

[Revised as of January 1, 2007]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 9CFR202.108]



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                  TITLE 9--ANIMALS AND ANIMAL PRODUCTS

 

  CHAPTER II--GRAIN INSPECTION, PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS ADMINISTRATION 

      (PACKERS AND STOCKYARDS PROGRAMS), DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

 

PART 202_RULES OF PRACTICE GOVERNING PROCEEDINGS UNDER THE PACKERS

AND STOCKYARDS ACT--Table of Contents

 

Sec. 202.108  Rule 8: Docketing of proceeding.



    Promptly following receipt of the answer, or the reply (if the 

answer asserts a counterclaim or a setoff), or following the expiration 

of the period of time prescribed above for the filing of the answer or 

of the reply, the agency head shall transmit all of the papers which 

have been filed in the proceeding (including the investigation report if 

any has been served on the parties) to the hearing clerk, who shall 

assign a docket number to the proceeding. Thereafter the proceeding 

shall be referred to by such number. The hearing clerk shall promptly 

transmit all such papers to the Office of the General Counsel for 

assignment of a presiding officer.