---
kind: "section"
citation: "5 C.F.R. § 2429.25"
title: "5"
number: "2429.25"
heading: "Number of copies and paper size."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/5/2429.25"
---

# §2429.25. Number of copies and paper size.

- (a) **General rule.** Except as discussed in [paragraph (b)](#b) of this section, and unless you use an FLRA-prescribed form, any document that you file with the Authority, General Counsel, Administrative Law Judge, Regional Director, or Hearing Officer, including any attachments, must be on 8 1/2 by 11-inch size paper, using normal margins and font sizes. You must file one original document, but you may substitute for the original document a clean copy of that document, so long as the copy is capable of being used as an original for purposes such as further reproduction.
- (b) **Exceptions.** You are not required to comply with [paragraph (a)](#a) of this section if and only if:
  - (1) You file documents electronically through use of the FLRA's eFiling system;
  - (2) The Authority or the General Counsel, or their designated representatives, allow you not to comply; or
  - (3) **Another provision of this subchapter allows you not to comply.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[77 FR 26437, May 4, 2012, as amended at 89 FR 11702, Feb. 15, 2024]

### Authority

Authority: 5 U.S.C. 7134; § 2429.18 also issued under 28 U.S.C. 2112(a).

### Source

Source: 45 FR 3516, Jan. 17, 1980, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[77 FR 26437, May 4, 2012, as amended at 89 FR 11702, Feb. 15, 2024]