CHAPTER 4. Hearings, Depositions and Notices
Chapter 4 added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 369.
§§ 8730–8742 · 17 sections
- § 8730 Any hearing before the board may be conducted upon sworn testimony of the applicants or witnesses except in the case of reports or investigations made by the…
- § 8730.1 The board shall acknowledge the receipt of all applications in writing within 10 days of receipt. All applications shall be acted upon within 90 days of…
- § 8730.2 Applicants shall be informed of the staff recommendations concerning the application at least seven days prior to being acted upon. This section shall not…
- § 8730.3 Applicants shall identify the names and addresses of contiguous landowners. Contiguous landowners so identified shall be informed of pending applications and…
- § 8731 The board may meet at any place in the State for a hearing or partial hearing of any application coming before it.
- § 8732 The board may hold a hearing or partial hearing before a committee of one or more members of the board, before a qualified neutral hearing officer designated…
- § 8732.5 All hearings or partial hearings shall be open and public.
- § 8733 The hearing officer shall take and report the evidence to the board.
- § 8734 The board may require the applicant to pay all or part of the expenses of any outside hearing, if held at the request of the applicant.
- § 8735 The expenses shall include traveling expenses of the members, officers or employees of the board, expenses of stenographic reporting and transcribing evidence…
- § 8736 All money collected as compensation for the time of the members, officers or employees of the board shall be paid by the board into the State Treasury and…
- § 8737 The board may provide for the taking at any place of the deposition under oath of any witness for or against any application pending before the board.
- § 8738 The deposition shall be taken before a notary public or other officer or person authorized by law or by this part to administer oaths.
- § 8739 The deposition shall be certified and returned to the office of the board in the manner provided by law for certifying and returning depositions in civil…
- § 8740 When taken and certified pursuant to this article the deposition may be read in evidence before the board at the hearing of the application.
- § 8741 An affidavit may be used to prove the service or publication of any notice required or provided for by any of the provisions of this part in the same manner…
- § 8742 In addition to the notices required by this part, the board may in its discretion give such notice as it may deem proper, by publication, mailing or otherwise,…