1. (a) The Board may appoint hearing examiners to preside at hearings. Subject to the approval of the Board member assigned to the case, the hearing examiner shall have the following authority:

   1. (1) To schedule and regulate the course of the hearings.
   2. (2) To administer oaths and affirmations.
   3. (3) To rule on motions in limine, offers of proof and the admission or exclusion of evidence.
   4. (4) To conduct pretrial conferences, settlement conferences and related pretrial proceedings and to dispose of procedural matters.
   5. (5) To schedule the filing of posthearing briefs following the conclusion of the hearing.
   6. (6) To recommend to the Board member or to the Board an opinion and order or adjudication disposing of the matters considered at the hearing.
2. (b) Subsection (a) supersedes 1 Pa. Code § 35.187 (relating to authority delegated to presiding officers).

Source

The provisions of this § 1021.107 amended September 3, 1999, effective September 4, 1999, 29 Pa.B. 4683; amended June 28, 2002, effective June 29, 2002, 32 Pa.B. 3085. Immediately preceding text appears at serial pages (270942) to (270943).