9.01.270 Hearings

(a) The Commission shall provide an applicant for a license an opportunity for a hearing prior to a final action denying such application and shall provide a licensee, or any other person subject to this chapter, the opportunity for a hearing prior to taking final action resulting in the revocation, suspension, or limitation of a license or any other adverse action, provided that the Commission may summarily suspend temporarily or extend suspension of a license for 30 days in those cases where such action is deemed appropriate by the Commission. In cases where a license is suspended prior to a hearing, an opportunity for a hearing shall be provided.

(b) Whenever upon specific factual finding, the Commission determines to take any final action, the Commission shall make a certification of findings and provide a copy thereof and a notice of hearing to the subject of that determination prior to a hearing. The Commission shall hold the hearing within 30 days of provision of the certification of findings and notice of hearing to the subject.

(c) At the hearing, it shall be the obligation of the subject to show cause why the Commission's determination to take final action should not be upheld. At the hearing, the subject shall be afforded access to evidence upon which any determination to take final action is based, to present the subject's own evidence and to confront witnesses.

(d) Within 30 days of the hearing, the Commission shall provide the subject written notice of its determination.