181—1.7 (546,17A) Custodians of records, filings and requests for public information. Unless otherwise specified by the department or the rules of its various divisions, each division is the principal custodian of its own divisional orders, statements of law or policy issued by the respective divisions, legal documents and other public documents on file with the department or its respective divisions. This is true in particular for the Iowa fair information practices Act. The responsibility for complying with that Act shall be upon the individual divisions. Each division shall promulgate rules pursuant to Iowa Code chapter 17A governing the manner in which documents may be filed with the respective divisions. Each division shall promulgate rules pursuant to Iowa Code chapters 17A, 21, and 22 governing the manner in which interested persons may obtain public information regarding that division.
	 1.7(1) An interested party may examine all public records promulgated or maintained by the department of commerce in the discharge of its function at its central office during regular business hours. The department’s central office is open from 8 a.m.	until 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday; the office is closed on Saturdays, Sundays, and official state holidays, designated according to state law.
	 1.7(2) All pleadings, petitions for rule making, petitions for declaratory rulings, and other documents filed with the department of commerce shall be filed with the director and shall be officially filed upon receipt of the document. All such documents shall be filed within the time limits established by law or these rules.