Alaska Administrative Code
Title 3 - Commerce, Community, and Economic Development
Part 7 - Regulatory Commission of Alaska
Chapter 48 - Practice and Procedure
Article 1 - Practice Before the Commission
3 AAC 48.159 - Standards of conduct - Hearing decorum

(a) Hearings before the commission must be conducted with fitting dignity and decorum. Conduct amounting to contempt at a public hearing is grounds for exclusion from the hearing and for summary suspension for the contemptuous person, without a hearing, for the duration of the hearing.

(b) Except as ordered otherwise by the commission, there shall be free access for the news media to all public hearings as long as the media exercise discretion and good judgment in their conduct.

(c) Smoking is not permitted at a formal hearing or prehearing conference while it is in session but will, in the commission's discretion, be permitted during recesses outside the hearing room.