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§ 13.207 

(2) The person seeking to intervene 

has a property, financial, or other le-
gitimate interest that may not be ad-
dressed adequately by the parties. 

(c) The administrative law judge may 

determine the extent to which an in-
tervenor may participate in the pro-
ceedings. 

§ 13.207

Certification of documents. 

(a) 

Signature required. The attorney of 

record, the party, or the party’s rep-
resentative must sign, by hand, elec-
tronically, or by other method accept-
able to the administrative law judge, 
or, if the matter is on appeal, to the 
FAA decisionmaker, each document 
tendered for filing with the FAA Hear-
ing Docket or served on the adminis-
trative law judge and on each other 
party. 

(b) 

Effect of signing a document. By 

signing a document, the attorney of 
record, the party, or the party’s rep-
resentative certifies that the attorney, 
the party, or the party’s representative 
has read the document and, based on 
reasonable inquiry and to the best of 
that person’s knowledge, information, 
and belief, the document is— 

(1) Consistent with the rules in this 

subpart; 

(2) Warranted by existing law or a 

good faith argument for extension, 
modification, or reversal of existing 
law; and 

(3) Not unreasonable or unduly bur-

densome or expensive, not made to har-
ass any person, not made to cause un-
necessary delay, and not made to cause 
needless increase in the cost of the pro-
ceedings or for any other improper pur-
pose. 

(c) 

Sanctions.  If the attorney of 

record, the party, or the party’s rep-
resentative signs a document in viola-
tion of this section, the administrative 
law judge or the FAA decisionmaker 
must: 

(1) Strike the pleading signed in vio-

lation of this section; 

(2) Strike the request for discovery or 

the discovery response signed in viola-
tion of this section and preclude fur-
ther discovery by the party; 

(3) Deny the motion or request signed 

in violation of this section; 

(4) Exclude the document signed in 

violation of this section from the 
record; 

(5) Dismiss the interlocutory appeal 

and preclude further appeal on that 
issue by the party who filed the appeal 
until an initial decision has been en-
tered on the record; or 

(6) Dismiss the appeal of the adminis-

trative law judge’s initial decision to 
the FAA decisionmaker. 

§ 13.208

Complaint. 

(a) 

Filing.  The agency attorney must 

file the complaint with the FAA Hear-
ing Docket, or may file a written mo-
tion to dismiss a request for hearing 
under § 13.218 instead of filing a com-
plaint, not later than 20 days after re-
ceipt by the agency attorney of a re-
quest for hearing. When filing the com-
plaint, the agency attorney must fol-
low the filing instructions in § 13.210. 
The agency attorney may suggest a lo-
cation for the hearing when filing the 
complaint. 

(b) 

Service.  An agency attorney must 

serve a copy of the complaint on the 
respondent, the president of the cor-
poration or company named as a re-
spondent, or a person designated by the 
respondent to accept service of docu-
ments in the civil penalty action. When 
serving the complaint, the agency at-
torney must follow the service instruc-
tions in § 13.211. 

(c) 

Contents.  A complaint must set 

forth the facts alleged, any regulation 
allegedly violated by the respondent, 
and the proposed civil penalty in suffi-
cient detail to provide notice of any 
factual or legal allegation and pro-
posed civil penalty. 

(d) 

Motion to dismiss stale allegations or 

complaint.  Instead of filing an answer 
to the complaint, a respondent may 
move to dismiss the complaint, or that 
part of the complaint, alleging a viola-
tion that occurred more than 2 years 
before an agency attorney issued a no-
tice of proposed civil penalty to the re-
spondent. 

(1) An administrative law judge may 

not grant the motion and dismiss the 
complaint or part of the complaint if 
the administrative law judge finds that 
the agency has shown good cause for 
any delay in issuing the notice of pro-
posed civil penalty. 

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