(c) The commission, member thereof, or hearing examiner conducting the hearing shall have
the power reasonably and fairly to amend any written complaint at any time prior to
the issuance of an order based thereon. The respondent shall have like power to amend
its answer to the original or amended complaint at any time prior to the issuance
of the order. The commissioner assigned to the preliminary hearing of any charge shall
take no part in the final hearing except as a witness upon competent matters and will
have no part in the determination or decision of the case after hearing.
(d) The respondent shall have the right to file an answer to the complaint and shall appear
at the hearing in person or otherwise with or without counsel to present evidence
and to examine and cross-examine witnesses.
(e) In any proceeding, the commission, its member, or its agent shall not be bound by
the rules of evidence prevailing in the courts.
(f) The commission shall in ascertaining the practices followed by the respondent take
into account all evidence, statistical or otherwise, that may tend to prove the existence
of a predetermined pattern of discrimination in housing.
(g) The testimony taken at the hearing shall be under oath and shall be reduced to writing
and filed with the commission. Thereafter, in its discretion, the commission upon
notice may take further testimony or hear argument.