(a) Any person who has a justiciable or administratively cognizable interest and who is not an applicant, petitioner, complainant, respondent, or protestant and who desires to be designated as a party in any contested case before the Commission may file a petition for leave to intervene no later than five days prior to the hearing date.
(b) The examiner or the Hearings Director shall promptly act on all petitions for leave to intervene. All interventions shall be subject to a motion to strike for having been improperly admitted.

Source Note: The provisions of this §1.37 adopted to be effective August 21, 2017, 42 TexReg 4131