16 U.S.C. § 825g — Hearings; rules of procedure

submitted 106 years ago by ch. 285 to r/title-16-CONSERVATION · 162 words · no verdicts yet

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Commission hearings may be held before the Commission, its members, or its designated representative. The Commission may admit interested States, consumers, security holders, competitors, and others whose participation serves the public interest. Its procedural rules apply, but technical evidence rules and harmless informality do not invalidate an action.

(a) Hearings may be before the Commission, one or more Commissioners, or its designated representative, and proper records must be kept. Under its rules, the Commission may admit an interested State, State commission, municipality, consumer or security-holder representative, a party's competitor, or another person whose participation may be in the public interest. (b) Commission rules of practice and procedure govern hearings, investigations, and proceedings. Technical evidence rules need not apply. Informality in the proceeding or in taking testimony does not invalidate an authorized order, decision, rule, or regulation.

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(a)

Hearings under this chapter may be held before the Commission, any member or members thereof or any representative of the Commission designated by it, and appropriate records thereof shall be kept. In any proceeding before it, the Commission, in accordance with such rules and regulations as it may prescribe, may admit as a party any interested State, State commission, municipality, or any representative of interested consumers or security holders, or any competitor of a party to such proceeding, or any other person whose participation in the proceeding may be in the public interest.

(b)

All hearings, investigations, and proceedings under this chapter shall be governed by rules of practice and procedure to be adopted by the Commission, and in the conduct thereof the technical rules of evidence need not be applied. No informality in any hearing, investigation, or proceeding or in the manner of taking testimony shall invalidate any order, decision, rule, or regulation issued under the authority of this chapter.

Source credit: (June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. III, § 308, as added Aug. 26, 1935, ch. 687, title II, § 213, 49 Stat. 858.)

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1920Enacted · Act of June 10, 1920, ch. 285 · 49 Stat. 858

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