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Washington Administrative Code (Last Updated: November 23, 2016) |
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Title 480. Utilities and Transportation Commission |
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Chapter 480-07. Procedural rules. |
Section 480-07-750. Commission discretion to accept settlement, impose conditions, or reject a proposed settlement.
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- (1) The commission may decide whether or not to consider a proposed settlement. The commission will approve settlements when doing so is lawful, when the settlement terms are supported by an appropriate record, and when the result is consistent with the public interest in light of all the information available to the commission.(2) If the commission considers a proposed settlement, it may accept the proposed settlement, with or without conditions, or may reject it.(a) If the commission rejects a proposed settlement, the litigation returns to its status at the time the settlement was offered and the time for completion of the hearing will be extended by the elapsed time for consideration of the settlement and may take into account the need to address other pending business before the commission.(b) If the commission accepts a proposed settlement upon conditions not proposed in the settlement, the parties may seek reconsideration of the decision and the settling parties must within the time for reconsideration state their rejection of the conditions. If a party rejects a proposed condition, the settlement is deemed rejected and (a) of this subsection applies.