Employees'Benefits. Part702:Administration and procedure. SubpartC:Adjudication procedures. Section702.349:Formal hearings; filing and mailing of compensation orders; disposition of transcripts.
The administrative law judge shall, within 20 days after the official termination of the hearing, deliver by mail, or otherwise, to the office of the district director having original jurisdiction, the transcript of the hearing, other documents or pleadings filed with him with respect to the claim, together with his signed compensation order. Upon receipt thereof, the district director, being the official custodian of all records with respect to such claims within his jurisdiction, shall formally date and file the transcript, pleadings, and compensation order (original) in his office. Such filing shall be accomplished by the close of business on the next succeeding working day, and the district director shall, on the same day as the filing was accomplished, send by certified mail a copy of the compensation order to the parties and to representatives of the parties, if any. Appended to each such copy shall be a paragraph entitled ‘‘proof of service’’ containing the certification of the district director that the copies were mailed on the date stated, to each of the parties and their representatives, as shown in such paragraph.