Section 125.20  Documents Pertaining to Hearings

a)         All documents, including but not limited to complaints, notices and motions, permitted or not required to be filed with the Board in connection with any proceeding before the Board shall be filed with the office of the General Counsel.

b)         All documents permitted or required to be filed with the office of the General Counsel may be so filed either:

1)         by personal delivery to the Board's principal office located in Springfield, Illinois, or the Board's permanent branch office located in Chicago, Illinois, or

2)         by mail, postage prepaid with the United States Postal Service, and addressed to the General Counsel at the Board's principal office or permanent branch office in Chicago.

c)         All documents filed by mail pursuant to Section 125.20 shall be deemed filed as of the date and time when such documents are actually received by the office of the General Counsel.  If said office customarily and regularly utilizes a time-date stamp for the recording of the receipt of such documents, the time and date stamp impression affixed to any such filed document shall be prima facie evidence that such document was filed on the date and at the time shown by such stamp impression.