NYC Admin Code › Title 8: Civil Rights › Chapter 1: Commission on Human Rights
§ 8-117 Rules of procedure
The commission shall adopt rules providing for hearing and pre-hearing procedure. These rules shall include rules providing that the commission, by its prosecutorial bureau, shall be a party to all complaints and that a complainant shall be a party if the complainant has intervened in the manner set forth in the rules of the commission. These rules shall also include rules governing discovery, motion practice and the issuance of subpoenas. Wherever necessary, the commission shall issue orders compelling discovery. In accordance with the commission's discovery rules, any party from whom discovery is sought may assert an objection to such discovery based upon a claim of privilege or other defense and the commission shall rule upon such objection.
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- NYC Admin Code, as published by American Legal Publishing, the City's official publisher
- Last amended
- No amendment date in the official history
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- Matched the official code on October 1, 2026
Publisher's notes
Added by the publisher for reference. Not part of the law.
- Editor's note: For related unconsolidated provisions, see Appendix A at L.L. 1991/039.
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