Rule R35-3. Prehearing Conferences.

As in effect on August 1, 2009

Table of Contents

• R35-3-1. Authority and Purpose.
• R35-3-2. Scheduling Prehearing Conferences.
• KEY
• Date of Enactment or Last Substantive Amendment
• Notice of Continuation
• Authorizing, Implemented, or Interpreted Law

R35-3-1. Authority and Purpose.

In accordance with the general objectives of the Government Records Access and Management Act in facilitating access to records, and in keeping with the objectives of hearing procedures found in Section 63G-2-403, Utah Code, to resolve disputes, this rule authorizes and establishes the procedure for holding prehearing conferences.

R35-3-2. Scheduling Prehearing Conferences.

(a) In the process of planning and organizing efforts to execute appeals which are filed pursuant to Section 63G-2-403, the chair of the state records committee, at his or her discretion, may direct the disputing parties to appear before him or her, in person or telephonically, for a prehearing conference, to be held before any official appeals hearing, for such purposes as:

(1) encouraging exploration of areas of agreement, including stipulations; or

(2) facilitating settlement of the appeal.

(b) In the event that the issue, or issues scheduled for an appeals hearing are resolved at a prehearing conference, the committee chair shall report the settlement to the entire records committee at the next scheduled meeting for the purposes of creating a public record. Any stipulations shall be written and presented to the members of the records committee at the hearing.

KEY

government documents, state records committee, records appeal hearings

Date of Enactment or Last Substantive Amendment

March 4, 2005

Notice of Continuation

July 2, 2004

Authorizing, Implemented, or Interpreted Law

63G-2-502(2)(a)