SECTION 785:4-7-3. Appearances

(a)   After opening the hearing and making a determination on notice, the Hearing Examiner shall require that all interested parties enter their appearances for the record by indicating on the attendance sheet or stating their names, addresses, who they represent if other than themselves and whether they are appearing in support of or in opposition to the application.

(b)   Interested parties may appear personally, by authorized representative and/or by legal counsel, provided, attorneys appearing as legal counsel for and in behalf of an interested party must be duly licensed to practice law by the Oklahoma Supreme Court.

(c)   In protested proceedings including enforcement actions initiated by Board staff and unless otherwise waived by the Board, the applicant and protestants or respondents, as the case may be, must appear at the hearing, either personally, by representative or by legal counsel. The failure of an interested party to appear shall be deemed to constitute default and abandonment of interest by the party failing to appear and shall preclude the party from being heard further unless good cause for such failure to appear is shown within five (5) days from the date of the hearing.

(d)   If a respondent party fails to appear without good cause shown, the allegations set forth in the Board's notice and supplemental statement thereto, if any, shall be deemed confessed, and the Hearing Examiner may recommend a default order based thereon to the Board without further notice to such defaulting respondent.