NAC703.655. Prehearing conference.

     1. The Commission or presiding officer may, upon its or the presiding officer’s own motion or at a motion made by a party of record, hold a prehearing conference to accomplish one or more of the following purposes:

     (a) Formulate or simplify the issues involved in the proceeding.

     (b) Obtain admissions of fact or any stipulation of the parties.

     (c) Arrange for the exchange of proposed exhibits or prepared expert testimony.

     (d) Identify the witnesses and the subject matter of their expected testimony and limit the number of witnesses, if necessary.

     (e) Rule on any pending procedural motions, motions for discovery or motions for protective orders.

     (f) Establish a schedule for the completion of discovery.

     (g) Determine the necessary and appropriate content of the notice of hearing required in subsection 6 of NAC 703.2211 or subsection 6 of NAC 703.2511.

     (h) Establish a schedule for the submission of a statement of issues and positions by all parties to a hearing on a change in rates by a public utility.

     (i) Establish any other procedure which may expedite the orderly conduct and disposition of the proceedings.

     2. Notice of any prehearing conference will be provided to all parties of record. Unless otherwise ordered for good cause shown, the failure of a party to attend a prehearing conference constitutes a waiver of any objection to the agreements reached or rulings made at the conference.

     3. The action taken and the agreements made at a prehearing conference:

     (a) Must be made a part of the record.

     (b) Control the course of subsequent proceedings unless modified at the hearing by the presiding officer.

     (c) Are binding upon all parties and persons who subsequently become parties to the proceeding.

     4. In any proceeding the presiding officer may call all the parties together for a conference before the taking of testimony or may recess the hearing for such a conference to carry out the intent of this section. The presiding officer will state on the record the results of such a conference.

     [Pub. Service Comm’n, Gen. Order 3 §§ 10.010-10.030, eff. 1-1-79]—(NAC A 1-6-84; 3-19-87)