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TITLE 16ECONOMIC REGULATION
PART 1RAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS
CHAPTER 1PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE
SUBCHAPTER EDISCOVERY
RULE §1.51Forms and Scope of Discovery in Protested Contested Cases

(a) Permissible forms of discovery by parties are:

  (1) oral depositions of a party or a nonparty;

  (2) written interrogatories to a party;

  (3) requests to a party for admission of facts or the genuineness or identity of documents or things;

  (4) requests to a party for production, examination, and copying of documents or other tangible materials;

  (5) requests to a party for entry upon and examination of real or personal property, or both; and

  (6) requests to a party for disclosures pursuant to Texas Rule of Civil Procedure 194.

(b) The scope of discovery shall be the same as provided by the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure and shall be subject to the constraints provided therein for privileges, objections, protective orders, and duty to supplement as well as the constraints provided in the APA.


Source Note: The provisions of this §1.51 adopted to be effective August 21, 2017, 42 TexReg 4131

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