Why does a citation have more than one mandate?

When it comes to citations (requirements) that come from authority documents, many times, a citation may have separate parts that would require you to do X and Y and then do Z. 

 

For example,

 

If there’s a sentence that says “lock the doors and turn on the alarms”. Yes, it is a single sentence however within that single sentence they are asking you to to two different things:

 

1.    “Lock the doors”

2.    “Turn on the alarms”

 

In UCF, we deconstruct that single sentence to two common controls that are associated with that citation. One related to “lock the doors” and the other related to “turn on the alarms” because in a court of law or in arbitration, the Judge only wants to hear “Yes, I did it. No, I didn’t”. 

 

When you start having compound statements where you have five, six or seven mandates into a single sentence within an authority document, it is very difficult to answer a Judge with “Yes, I did. No, I didn’t”.

 

This is the primary reason why UCF deconstructs these sentence into two, three or four common controls. We want to ensure that our clients can go in front of a Judge and answer “Yes, I did” and “No, I didn’t” clearly.