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for criminal prosecution. (d) Reports. studies. The commission may provide reports to the city council reoardino the nature and extent of discriminatory housing practices in the city. or recommendino leoislative or other action to carry out the purposes of this article. (e) Cooperation with other entities. The commission shall cooperate with and provide technical and other assistance to federal. state. local. and other public or private entities that are formulating or operatino proorams to prevent or eliminate discriminatory housino practices. (f) Witnesses and information. The commission may invite witnesses. administer oaths. and request information from witnesses and interested parties in aid of investigations and hearinos under this article. Sec. 46.051. 46.052. Complaints. (a) Any person who claims to have been injured... or who believes he or she will be irrevocably injured... by a discriminatory housing practice may file a complaint with the fair housing officer. The complaint shall be in viTiting and shall identify the person alleged to have committed or is about to commit a discriminatory housing practice and shall set forth particulars thereof. (b) A complaint must be: ill in writing; 0 under oath: m in the form prescribed by the commission; and ill filed within 180 days after the alleged discriminatory housino practice occurred. (bç) The fair housing officer shall receive and accept notification and referral of complaints from the state and federal oovernments Secretary of I lousing and Urban Development pursuant to title VIII, fair I lousing Act of 1968, rL 90 284, and shall treat these complaints in the same manner as complaints filed directly by the complainant person aggrieved. (eg) The fair housino officer may, in the officer's discretion, allow a complaint to be supplemented or amended. If, in the course of any im¡estigation as pfcuided in section 46.054, on a complaint filed "Mth or referred to the fair housing officer, the fair housing officer recei"tes credible evidence and has probable cause to believe that a person named in the complaint has committed a discriminatory housing practice on grounds not stated in the complaint, the fair housing officer may prepare and file a supplemental complaint ivith the commission, and any supplemental complaint shall thereafter be treated in the same manner as an original complaint filed by a person aggrieved. (~) Upon the filing or referral of any complaint, the fair housing officer shall~ furnish a copy of the complaint to the person named in the complaint. ( 1) give the complainant notice that the complaint has been received: (2) advise the complainant of the time limits and choice of forums under state law. and (3) serve on each respondent within 20 days after the filino of the complaint or the identification of an additional respondent under section 46.046: (A) a notice identifying the alleoed discriminatory housing practice and 4