Pennsylvania Code
Title 34 - LABOR AND INDUSTRY
Part VII - Workers' Compensation Appeal Board
Chapter 111 - SPECIAL RULES OF ADMINISTRATIVE PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE BEFORE THE WORKMEN'S COMPENSATION APPEAL BOARD
Subchapter D - OTHER PETITIONS
Section 111.35 - Dispositions of petitions
Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 38, September 21, 2024
(a) The Board will allow and consider briefs which are submitted simultaneously with the petition or request or answer thereto. A brief which is not submitted simultaneously with the petition, request or answer thereto, will not be considered by the Board and the petition or request may be determined on the petition or request and answer thereto without further argument or brief.
(b) A brief submitted with a petition, request or answer thereto shall conform to the requirements of § 111.16(e)-(g) (relating to briefs: content and form and time for filing).
(c) Oral argument on a petition may be scheduled at the discretion of the Board. Parties will be notified of the scheduling of oral argument as far in advance of the argument date as possible. The scheduling and conduct of oral argument will conform to the requirements of § 111.17 (relating to oral argument).
(d) The Board may, if appropriate, or will, if required by law, refer a petition or request to a judge for conducting hearings, preparing findings or proposed orders. Thereafter, the petition or request shall, if appropriate or required, be returned to the Board.
(e) Subsections (a)-(d) supersede 1 Pa. Code Chapter 35, Subchapters B, C, E and I.
The provisions of this §111.35 amended under sections 401.1 and 435(a) and (c) of the Workers' Compensation Act (77 P. S. §§ 710 and 991(a) and (c)); section 2205 of The Administrative Code of 1929 (71 P. S. § 565); and section 414 of The Pennsylvania Occupational Disease Act (77 P. S. § 1514).
This section cited in 34 Pa. Code § 111.14 (relating to motions to quash).
