- (a) Due date. The due date of each brief must appear on its front cover or title page.
- (b) Table of contents — Citations. A brief of more than twenty (20) pages shall contain on its front flyleaves a table of contents to be supplemented by a list of citations, alphabetically arranged, with references to the pages where they appear.
- (c) Sketch or chart. In proceedings wherein misrouting or undue prejudice or preference are alleged, the complainant should include as part of the brief a small sketch or chart adequately reflecting the situation.
(d) Evidence abstract.
- (1) A brief filed after a hearing should contain an abstract of the evidence relied upon by the party filing it, preferably assembled by subjects, with reference to the pages of the record or exhibit where the evidence appears.
- (2) The abstract should follow the statement of the case and precede the argument.
- (3) In the event the party elects not to include a separate abstract in his or her brief, he or she should give specific reference to the portions of the record, whether transcript or otherwise, relied upon in support of the respective statements of fact made throughout the brief.
- (e) Requested findings. Each brief should include such requests for specific findings, separately stated and numbered, as the party desires the State Highway Commission to make.
(f) Exhibit reproduction.
- (1) Exhibits should not be reproduced in the brief but may, if desired, be shown, within reasonable limits, in an appendix to the brief.
- (2) Analyses of such exhibits should be included in the abstract of evidence under the subjects to which they pertain.