§ 1-331. Cross-examination.

(a)

After each person provides sworn testimony or documents are made part of the record, the applicant and staff shall be entitled to conduct cross-examination. The Board shall be entitled to question participants providing unsworn and sworn testimony.

(b)

A participant or a witness may not question any person. However, a participant or a witness may request that the Board ask questions of a witness.

(c)

The scope of the cross-examination shall be limited to the facts alleged by the witness.

(d)

The Mayor may direct a person conducting a cross-examination not to harass, intimidate, or embarrass the witness, or may direct the witness not to discuss questions that are irrelevant or beyond the scope of the witness's testimony.

(e)

If the party conducting the cross-examination violates directions from the Mayor to end a line of questioning deemed irrelevant or designed to harass, intimidate, or embarrass a witness, the Mayor may terminate the cross-examination.

(Ord. No. 95-55, § 1, 12-12-95; Ord. No. 1997-02, § 1, 1-14-97; Ord. No. 2000-13, § 1.06, 4-11-00; Ord. No. 2009-16, § 1, 3-24-09; Ord. No. 2013-43, § 1, 12-10-13)