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    Modification of board decisions or orders
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    SECTION 222

    Technical rules of evidence or procedure not required

    Workers' Compensation (WKC) CHAPTER 67, ARTICLE 9

    § 222. Technical rules of evidence or procedure not required. The
    chair, the board or the chair's designee, pursuant to section two
    hundred twenty-one of this article, in making an investigation or
    inquiry or conducting a hearing shall not be bound by common law or
    statutory rules of evidence or by technical or formal rules of
    procedure, except as provided by this chapter; but may make such
    investigation or inquiry or conduct such hearing in such manner as to
    ascertain the substantial rights of the parties.