Arizona Administrative Code › Title 10 - LAW › Chapter 2 - ATTORNEY GENERAL - FAIR HOUSING › Article 1 - FAIR HOUSING › Section R10-2-115 - Complaints

Current through Register Vol. 30, No. 28, July 12, 2024
A. A complaint that
				any person has engaged in or is engaging in an unlawful housing practice within
				the meaning of the Act may be filed by or on behalf of a person claiming to be
				aggrieved or by the Attorney General not later than one year after an alleged
				discriminatory housing practice has occurred or terminated.
B. A complaint may be filed against any
				person alleged to be engaged, to have engaged, or to be about to be engaged, in
				a discriminatory housing practice.
C. A complaint may also be filed against any
				person who directs or controls, or has the right to direct or control, the
				conduct of another person with respect to any aspect of the sale, rental,
				advertising, insuring, or financing of dwellings or the provision of brokerage
				services relating to the sale or rental of dwellings, if that other person
				acting within the scope of his or her authority as an employee or agent of the
				directing or controlling person, is engaged, has engaged, or is about to
				engage, in a discriminatory housing practice.
D. Complainants may file complaints in person
				or by mail to: Attorney General, Civil Rights Section, 1275 West Washington,
				Phoenix, Arizona 85007, or Attorney General, Tucson Office, Civil Rights
				Section, 402 Congress West, Tucson, Arizona 85701, or such alternate or
				additional offices as the Attorney General may from time to time
				establish.
E. Complainants may
				provide information necessary to state a violation of the Act by telephone to
				the Civil Rights Section. The Civil Rights Section shall reduce the information
				provided by telephone to writing on the prescribed complaint form and shall
				send the form to the complainant to be signed and affirmed. Such a complaint
				shall be deemed to have been filed on the date that the information has been
				telephonically taken, provided that the complainant subsequently signs and
				affirms the complaint.
F. Each
				complaint shall be in writing and shall be signed and affirmed by the person
				filing the complaint. The signature and affirmation may be made at any time
				during the investigation. The affirmation shall state:
"I believe under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is
				  true and correct."
G.
				Complaint forms shall be available in the Civil Rights Section of the Attorney
				General's Office. The Attorney General shall accept as timely pursuant to
				A.R.S. §
									41-1491.22(C)
				 any written statement which substantially
				sets forth in accordance with subsection (H) the allegations of a
				discriminatory housing practice under the Act, if the Complainant signs and
				affirms the complaint on the required form at any time during the
				investigation. The Attorney General shall provide assistance in filling out
				forms and in filing a complaint.
H.
				Each complaint shall contain the following information:
1. The name and address of an aggrieved
				person;
2. The name and address of
				a respondent;
3. A description and
				the address of the dwelling which is involved, if appropriate; and
4. A concise statement of the facts,
				including pertinent dates, constituting the alleged discriminatory housing
				practice.