Section 35.111. Conferences to adjust, settle or expedite proceedings

In order to provide opportunity for the submission and consideration of facts, arguments, offers of settlement, or proposals of adjustment, for settlement of a proceeding, or any of the issues therein, or consideration of means by which the conduct of the hearing may be facilitated and the disposition of the proceeding expedited, conferences between the participants for such purposes may be held at any time prior to or during hearings before the agency head or the presiding officer as time, the nature of the proceeding, and the public interest may permit.

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This section cited in 6 Pa. Code § 22.95 (relating to formal appeals and hearings); 7 Pa. Code § 131.31 (relating to conferences); 10 Pa. Code § 3.10 (relating to prehearing conferences); 16 Pa. Code § 42.75 (relating to conciliation meetings and prehearing conferences); 22 Pa. Code § 121.191 (relating to approved lending institutions in Federal Stafford Loan, Federal PLUS Loan and Federal Consolidation Loan Programs); 25 Pa. Code § 1021.105 (relating to prehearing conferences); 25 Pa. Code § 1021.106 (relating to voluntary mediation); 34 Pa. Code § 131.53a (relating to consolidated hearing procedure); 34 Pa. Code § 131.57 (relating to compromise and release agreements); 34 Pa. Code § 131.58 (relating to informal conferences); 34 Pa. Code § 131.59 (relating to mediation); 34 Pa. Code § 131.59a (relating to voluntary mediation); 34 Pa. Code § 131.59b (relating to mandatory mediation); 34 Pa. Code § 131.60 (relating to resolution hearings); 34 Pa. Code § 131.203 (relating to hearing procedures); 34 Pa. Code § 131.204 (relating to UEGF subpoenas and interrogatories); 37 Pa. Code § 79.84 (relating to hearings); 37 Pa. Code § 171.61 (relating to conciliation conference); 37 Pa. Code § 171.81 (relating to prehearing conference); 37 Pa. Code § 197.46 (relating to prehearing conference); 37 Pa. Code § 197.88 (relating to prehearing conference); 40 Pa. Code § 15.43 (relating to prehearing memoranda or conferences); 49 Pa. Code § 19.37 (relating to prehearing conference); 52 Pa. Code § 5.221 (relating to conferences to adjust, settle or expedite proceedings); 52 Pa. Code § 1005.91 (relating to conferences generally); 55 Pa. Code § 41.101 (relating to prehearing procedure in certain provider appeals); and 58 Pa. Code § 491a.9 (relating to prehearing and other conferences).