---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 825g"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "825g"
heading: "Hearings; rules of procedure"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/825g"
units:
  - "Chapter 12 — Federal Regulation and Development of Power"
  - "Subchapter III — Licensees and Public Utilities; Procedural and Administrative Provisions"
---

# §825g. Hearings; rules of procedure

- (a) Hearings under this chapter may be held before the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c), any member or members thereof or any representative of the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c) designated by it, and appropriate records thereof shall be kept. In any proceeding before it, the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c), in accordance with such rules and regulations as it may prescribe, may admit as a party any interested [State](/usc/16/796.md?p=6), [State commission](/usc/16/796.md?p=15), [municipality](/usc/16/796.md?p=7), or any representative of interested consumers or [security](/usc/16/796.md?p=16) holders, or any competitor of a party to such proceeding, or any other [person](/usc/16/796.md?p=4) whose participation in the proceeding may be in the public interest.
- (b) All hearings, investigations, and proceedings under this chapter shall be governed by rules of practice and procedure to be adopted by the [Commission](/usc/16/544.md?p=c), and in the conduct thereof the technical rules of evidence need not be applied. No informality in any hearing, investigation, or proceeding or in the manner of [taking](/usc/16/3102.md?p=18) testimony shall invalidate any order, decision, rule, or regulation issued under the authority of this chapter.

## Source credit

(June 10, 1920, ch. 285, pt. III, § 308, as added Aug. 26, 1935, ch. 687, title II, § 213, 49 Stat. 858.)