New Mexico Administrative Code
Title 19 - NATURAL RESOURCES AND WILDLIFE
Chapter 15 - OIL AND GAS
Part 4 - ADJUDICATION
Section 19.15.4.17 - RULES OF EVIDENCE AND EXHIBITS FOR ADJUDICATORY HEARINGS
Current through Register Vol. 35, No. 24, December 23, 2024
A. Presentation of evidence. Subject to other provisions of 19.15.4.16 NMAC, the commission or division examiner shall afford full opportunity to the parties at an adjudicatory hearing before the commission or division examiner to present evidence and to cross-examine witnesses. The rules of evidence applicable in a trial before a court without a jury shall not control, but division examiners and the commission may use such rules as guidance in conducting adjudicatory hearings. The commission or division examiner may admit relevant evidence, unless it is immaterial, repetitious or otherwise unreliable. The commission or division examiner may take administrative notice of the authenticity of documents copied from the division's files.
B. Parties introducing exhibits at hearings before the commission or a division examiner shall provide a complete set of exhibits for the court reporter, each commissioner or division examiner and other parties of record.
C. A party requesting incorporation of records from a previous hearing at a commission hearing shall include copies of the record for each commissioner.
