Pleadings; communications.

1. All pleadings, including, without limitation, any complaints, petitions, answers, briefs, motions, affidavits and applications, must be addressed to the Department and not to individual members of the Committee or staff. All pleadings shall be deemed to be officially received by the Department when a true copy of the paper or document, properly addressed and stamped, is deposited in the United States mail. 2. Informal communications may be made with individual members of the staff, and these communications and documents shall be deemed to be officially received by the Department when they are properly addressed and stamped and deposited in the United States mail. 3. Informal communications from the Department or Committee must be signed by the responsible staff member or the Chair of the Committee. 4. Each communication must be limited to one subject and contain the name and address of the person originating the communication.