In order to encourage agreement, settlements and stipulations between the parties at the prehearing conference and in order to expedite Commission proceedings, it is a policy of the Commission that if any agreement provides, by its terms, that any provisions thereof are nonseverable, such provisions shall only be adopted in their entirety, if at all, by the Commission.
Parties failing to stipulate to matters agreed upon by the filing utility and the Staff may, in the Commission's discretion, be afforded an opportunity to cross-examine and to submit written briefs, documentation or additional prefiled testimony in opposition to the stipulation or in support of unresolved factual or legal questions.
39 Miss. Code. R. 1-13-103