Section R20-5-664. Prehearing Conferences

A.      Convening a conference. 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 wit- nesses; and

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

B.       Record of conference. The Commission shall make an order which recites the action taken at the conference, the amend- ments allowed to any documents which have been filed, and the agreements made between the parties as to any of the mat- ters 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 hear- ing, unless modified at the hearing, to prevent manifest injus- tice.

Historical Note

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).