AMENDMENT AND WITHDRAWAL OF PLEADINGS

1. (a) A modification of or supplement to an application, complaint, petition or other pleading shall be deemed as an amendment to the pleading, and shall comply with the requirements of this subchapter relating to the pleading amended insofar as appropriate. Upon its own motion or upon motion promptly filed by a participant, the agency may for good cause decline to permit, or may strike in whole or part, an amendment.
2. (b) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, no amendment to a pleading may be filed within 5 days next preceding the commencement of or during a hearing unless directed or permitted by the agency head or the presiding officer after opportunity for all parties to be heard thereon. An amendment in a licensing or certification proceeding which reduces the scope of the application may be filed at any time, if permitted by the agency head or the presiding officer.

Notes of Decisions

Where petitioner has failed to describe, during the hearings and in his briefs, the specific nonmerit factor on which he alleges his furlough was based, and where the Civil Service Commission gave extensive rein in the introduction of evidence and specifically found a lack of discrimination, it cannot be said that the Commission abused its discretion in denying petitioner’s motion to amend his complaint to include an allegation that furlough was based on political, religious, union, race, national origin or other nonmerit factors under 71 P. S. § 741.905(a). O’Byrne v. Department of Transportation, 498 A.2d 1385 (Pa. Cmwlth. 1985).

Cross References

This section cited in 34 Pa. Code § 111.15 (relating to no other pleadings allowed); 34 Pa. Code § 131.35 (relating to amendments to pleadings); 34 Pa. Code § 131.36 (relating to joinder); 34 Pa. Code § 131.57 (relating to compromise and release agreements); 34 Pa. Code § 131.60 (relating to resolution hearings); 49 Pa. Code § 31.103 (relating to applicability of other laws and rules); 49 Pa. Code § 31.115 (relating to disciplinary sanctions); 52 Pa. Code § 5.91 (relating to amendments of pleadings generally); 52 Pa. Code § 1005.61 (relating to amendments of pleadings generally); 52 Pa. Code § 1005.62 (relating to amendments to conform to the evidence); 55 Pa. Code § 41.82 (relating to amendments of requests for hearing); 58 Pa. Code § 493a.7 (relating to amendments and withdrawal of pleadings); and 61 Pa. Code § 703.2 (relating to petition content).