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<regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".04" citation="COMAR 26.20.34.04" title_num="26" subtitle_num="20" chapter_num="34" heading="Prehearing Conference.">
  <paragraph num="A.">
    <text>Before the date of the adjudicatory hearing, the hearing officer may hold a prehearing conference, for which he shall give notice to all parties of the date, time, and place.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="B.">
    <text>At a prehearing conference or within some reasonable time set by the hearing officer, each party shall make available to the other parties the names of experts and other witnesses the party expects to call, together with a brief written summary of their anticipated testimony.</text>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="C.">
    <text>At a prehearing conference, or within some reasonable time set by the hearing officer, the following matters shall be considered:</text>
    <paragraph num="(1)">
      <text>The documents within the administrative file shall be identified;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(2)">
      <text>Stipulations and admissions of facts and the genuineness of documents and other matters upon which there is agreement shall be identified;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(3)">
      <text>Matters of which official notice shall be taken shall be identified;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(4)">
      <text>Disputed issues of a purely legal nature shall be identified;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(5)">
      <text>When possible, consideration shall be given and decisions made upon objections to the introduction into evidence at the hearing of any written documents, papers, exhibits, testimony, or materials proposed to be introduced at the hearing by a party;</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="(6)">
      <text>A schedule of presentation order for the following shall be established:</text>
      <paragraph num="(a)">
        <text>Submission of written statements;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(b)">
        <text>Presentation of oral statements;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(c)">
        <text>Presentation of oral direct and cross-examinations;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(d)">
        <text>Presentation of oral arguments.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </paragraph>
  <paragraph num="D.">
    <text>The hearing officer shall prepare a written prehearing order reciting the actions taken at the prehearing conference.</text>
  </paragraph>
</regulation>