Kan. Admin. Regs. § 82-1-224

Current through Register Vol. 43, No. 24, June 13, 2024

Section 82-1-224 - Joinder of proceedings and parties

(a) For good cause shown, the joinder of any proceeding with another proceeding may be permitted by the commission. However, issues that are not germane to each other and that require separate and distinct proof shall not be joined in the same proceeding.

(b) Two or more dockets may be consolidated by the commission for hearing on a common record if the commission deems it to be in the public interest to do so.

(c) The broadening of issues may be permitted by the commission in any proceeding before the commission.

(d) Two or more grounds of complaint involving the same purposes, subjects, or statement of facts may be included in one complaint, but shall be separately stated and numbered.

(e) Two or more complainants may join in one complaint if their respective causes of complaint are against the same defendant or defendants and involve substantially the same purposes, subjects or subject matter and a similar statement of facts.

Kan. Admin. Regs. § 82-1-224

Authorized by K.S.A. 2001 Supp. 55-604, 55-704, K.S.A. 2001 Supp. 66-106; effective Jan. 1, 1966; amended Feb. 15, 1977; amended Oct. 10, 2003.