New Hampshire Code of Administrative Rules
Lab - Commissioner, Department of Labor
Chapter Lab 200 - DEPARTMENT OF LABOR HEARINGS
Part Lab 203 - GENERAL RULES OF PRACTICE
Section Lab 203.11 - Control of Hearing

(a) In cases of disorder or refusal to comply with the rules of the hearing, the hearings officer or chair of the panel shall use reasonable means to control the hearing.

(b) Parties, representatives, and witnesses shall not engage in bitter exchanges, vulgarities, or abuse or make offensive or insulting comments. When such an act is committed, the hearings officer or chair of the panel shall admonish the offender reminding him that such behavior does not contribute to a fair hearing and impedes the orderly disposition of a case.

(c) If the offense is repeated and further admonition appears fruitless, the hearings officer or chair of the panel shall exclude a disorderly person from the hearing.

(d) A disorderly person shall not lose the case because of his/her offensive conduct or the offensive conduct of his/her representative or witness.

(e) Notwithstanding (d) above, if a disorderly person's offensive conduct is so flagrant that it prevents the completion of the case, the disorderly person shall be warned that his/her conduct shall result in a default judgment entered for the case. Such party may reopen the case upon submitting his/her offer of proof or argument in an orderly fashion before the default decision becomes final.