New Hampshire Code of Administrative Rules
Saf - Department of Safety
Subtitle Saf-C - Commissioner, Department of Safety
Chapter Saf-C 200 - PROCEDURAL AND HEARINGS RULES
Part Saf-C 203 - PROCEDURAL RULES
Section Saf-C 203.12 - Control of Hearing

(a) In cases of disorder or refusal to comply with the rules of the hearing, the hearings examiner 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 examiner shall admonish the offender reminding the offender 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 examiner 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.