CHAPTER 7. Hearings
Chapter 7 added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1784.
§§ 10950–10967 · 22 sections
- § 10950 (a) If any applicant for or recipient of public social services is dissatisfied with any action of the county department relating to his or her application for…
- § 10951 (a) (1) A person is not entitled to a hearing pursuant to this chapter unless he or she files his or her request for the same within 90 days after the order or…
- § 10951.5 (a) For a beneficiary of a Medi-Cal managed care plan who meets the criteria for an expedited resolution of an appeal as set forth in subdivision (c) of…
- § 10952 (a) The department shall set the hearing to commence within 30 working days after the request is filed, and, at least 10 days prior to the hearing, shall give…
- § 10952.5 (a) If regulations require a public or private agency to write a position statement concerning the issues in question in a fair hearing, or if the public or…
- § 10953 A hearing under this chapter shall be conducted by administrative law judges employed by the department, unless the director orders that it shall be conducted…
- § 10953.5 (a) The director has authority to appoint the department’s administrative law judges as provided in Section 10555. (b) Each administrative law judge shall have…
- § 10954 The director or administrative law judge conducting the hearing, shall have all of the powers and authority conferred upon the head of a department in Article…
- § 10955 The hearing shall be conducted in an impartial and informal manner in order to encourage free and open discussion by participants. All testimony shall be…
- § 10956 The proceedings at the hearing shall be reported by a phonographic reporter or otherwise perpetuated by mechanical, electronic, or other means capable of…
- § 10957 The person conducting the hearing, upon good cause shown, may continue the hearing for a period of not to exceed 30 days. When the refusal of a county to…
- § 10958 If the hearing is conducted by an administrative law judge, he or she shall prepare a fair, impartial, and independent proposed decision, in writing and in…
- § 10958.1 The issues at the hearing shall be limited to those issues which are reasonably related to the request for hearing or other issues identified by either party…
- § 10959 (a) After an administrative law judge has held a hearing and issued a proposed decision, within 30 days after the department has received a copy of the…
- § 10960 (a) Within 30 days after receiving the decision of the director, which is the proposed decision of an administrative law judge adopted by the director as…
- § 10961 The decision of the director need not specify the amount of the award to be paid unless the amount of the award is an issue. If the decision is in favor of the…
- § 10962 The applicant, recipient, respondent, or the affected county, within one year after receiving notice of the department’s final decision, may file a petition…
- § 10963 The county director shall comply with and execute every decision of the director rendered pursuant to this chapter.
- § 10964 The department shall compile and distribute to each county department a current digest of decisions, properly indexed, rendered under this chapter, and each…
- § 10965 Nothing in this chapter shall prevent the filing of the request for a hearing by the legal representative, or, if there is no authorized legal representative,…
- § 10966 (a) In addition to any other delegation powers granted to the director under law, the director may delegate his or her powers to adopt final decisions under…
- § 10967 At the time of the hearing the recipient has a right to raise the adequacy of the county’s notice of action as an issue. If the administrative law judge…