[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 45, Volume 4]
[Revised as of October 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 45CFR1386.105]

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                        TITLE 45--PUBLIC WELFARE
 
CHAPTER XIII--OFFICE OF HUMAN DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH 
                           AND HUMAN SERVICES
 
PART 1386--FORMULA GRANT PROGRAMS--Table of Contents
 
  Subpart D--Practice and Procedure for Hearings Pertaining to States' 
 Conformity and Compliance With Developmental Disabilities State Plans, 
                    Reports and Federal Requirements
 
Sec. 1386.105  Evidence.

    (a) Testimony. Testimony by witnesses at the hearing is given orally 
under oath or affirmation. Witnesses

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must be available at the hearing for cross-examination by all parties.
    (b) Stipulations and exhibits. Two or more parties may agree to 
stipulations of fact. Such stipulations, or any exhibit proposed by any 
party, must be exchanged at the prehearing conference or at a different 
time prior to the hearing if the presiding officer requires it.
    (c) Rules of evidence. Technical rules of evidence do not apply to 
hearings conducted pursuant to this subpart, but rules or principles 
designed to assure production of the most credible evidence available 
and to subject testimony to test by cross-examination are applied where 
reasonably necessary by the presiding officer. A witness may be cross-
examined on any matter material to the proceeding without regard to the 
scope of his or her direct examination. The presiding officer may 
exclude irrelevant, immaterial, or unduly repetitious evidence. All 
documents and other evidence offered or taken for the record is open to 
examination by the parties and opportunity must be given to refute facts 
and arguments advanced on either side of the issues.