520-RICR-00-00-3. Procedures - Complaints and Investigations (version Periodic Refile, 01/28/2002 to 05/25/2018)

Regulation 36-14-12002 — Time for Investigations. Pursuant to R.I. Gen. Laws § 36-14-12(c), upon receipt of a written complaint alleging a violation of this chapter, the Commission shall within one hundred eighty (180) days of the receipt of the written complaint complete its investigation; provided, that the Commission may, for good cause shown, grant no more than two (2) extensions of sixty (60) days each, as follows: (a) Requests to the Commission for extensions of sixty (60) days to complete investigations shall be submitted in writing to the full Commission by the Executive Director or his/her designee at least fifteen (15) days prior to the expiration of the initial one hundred eighty day (180) period or of an initial sixty (60) day extension, as the case may be. (b) Requests to the Commission pursuant to subsection (a), above, shall be submitted ex parte to the Commission and determinations of good cause shown shall be made upon a review and consideration of the full record before the Commission at the time the request is made. (c) All proceedings before the Commission relating to requests for extensions of time pursuant to subsections (a) and (b), above, shall be stenographically transcribed. (d) Upon completion of the investigation of a complaint, and prior to proceedings by the Com- mission as to a finding of probable cause regarding allegations of the complaint, all records relating to any determination(s) of extensions for good cause shown, including any steno- graphic transcripts made pursuant to subsection (c), above, shall be available to the subject of a complaint and/or his/her counsel.