Sec.17-210a-24. Participation by other persons

(a) Permission to participate. At any time prior to the commencement of oral testimony in any hearing on a contested case any person may request that the presiding officer permit that person to participate in the hearing. Any person not a party who is so permitted to participate in the hearing will be identified an intervenor in these regulations and will participate in those portions of the contested case that the presiding officer shall expressly allow.

(b) Status of a non-party that has been admitted to participate. No grant of leave to participate in the hearing as an intervenor or in any other manner shall be deemed to be an admission by the commissioner that the person he has permitted to participate is a party in interest that may be aggrieved by any final decision, order or ruling of the commissioner unless such grant of leave to participate expressly so states.

(Effective April 13, 1978)