Ariz. Admin. Code § R20-5-664 - Prehearing Conferences

A. Upon its own motion or the motion of a party, the Commission may direct the parties or their counsel to meet with them for a conference to consider:

1. Simplification of the issues;

2. Necessity or desirability of amendments to documents for purposes of clarification, simplification, or limitation;

3. Stipulations, admissions of fact, and of contents and authenticity of documents;

4. Limitation of the number of parties and of expert witnesses; and

5. Such other matters as may tend to expedite the disposition of the proceeding and to assure a just conclusion thereof.

B. The Commission shall make an order which recites the action taken at the conference, the amendments allowed to any documents which have been filed, and the agreements made between the parties as to any of the matters considered, and which limits the issues for hearings to those not disposed of by admission or agreements; and such order when entered controls the subsequent course of the hearing, unless modified at the hearing, to prevent manifest injustice.

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Ariz. Admin. Code § R20-5-664

Adopted as an emergency effective October 29, 1980, pursuant to A.R.S. § 41-1003, valid for only 90 days (Supp. 80-5). Former Section R4-13-666 adopted as an emergency effective October 29, 1980, renumbered and adopted as Section R4-13-664 effective March 2, 1981 (Supp. 81-2). R20-5-664 recodified from R4-13-664 (Supp. 95-1). Amended by final rulemaking at 30 A.A.R. 2109, effective 6/6/2024.