- (a) These rules shall govern all compliance proceedings held before a judge and all alleged violations coming to the Executive Director as a complaint.
- (b) In the absence of a specific provision in these rules, procedure shall be in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act, subchapter II of chapter 5 and chapter 7, of title 5 U.S.C., and the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, in that order.
- (c) These rules and regulations shall be liberally construed to effectuate the purposes and provisions of the Architectural Barriers Act and section 502 of the Rehabilitation Act.
- (d) The rules shall be applied to secure fairness in administration and elimination of unjustifiable expense and delay and to ascertain the truth.
- (e) Words importing the singular number may extend and be applied to a plural and vice versa.