Kentucky Statutes 13B.120 – Final order
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(1) In making the final order, the agency head shall consider the record including the recommended order and any exceptions duly filed to a recommended order.
(2) The agency head may accept the recommended order of the hearing officer and adopt it as the agency’s final order, or it may reject or modify, in whole or in part, the recommended order, or it may remand the matter, in whole or in part, to the hearing officer for further proceedings as appropriate.
(3) The final order in an administrative hearing shall be in writing and stated in the record. If the final order differs from the recommended order, it shall include separate statements of findings of fact and conclusions of law. The final order shall also include the effective date of the order and a statement advising parties fully of available appeal rights.
(4) Except as otherwise required by federal law, the agency head shall render a final order in an administrative hearing within ninety (90) days after:
(a) The receipt of the official record of the hearing in which there was no hearing officer submitting a recommended order under KRS § 13B.110; or
(b) The hearing officer submits a recommended order to the agency head, unless the matter is remanded to the hearing officer for further proceedings.
(5) Unless waived by the party, a copy of the final order shall be transmitted to each party or to his attorney of record in the same manner as provided in KRS § 13B.050.
(6) This section shall not apply to disposition pursuant to KRS § 13B.070(3).
(7) If, pursuant to statute, an agency may review the final order of another agency, the review is deemed to be a continuous proceeding as if before a single agency. The final order of the first agency is treated as a recommended order and the second agency functions as though it were reviewing a recommended order in accordance with this section.
Effective: July 15, 1996
History: Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 318, sec. 11, effective July 15, 1996. — Created
1994 Ky. Acts ch. 382, sec. 12, effective July 15, 1996.
(2) The agency head may accept the recommended order of the hearing officer and adopt it as the agency’s final order, or it may reject or modify, in whole or in part, the recommended order, or it may remand the matter, in whole or in part, to the hearing officer for further proceedings as appropriate.
Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 13B.120
- agency: means each state board, bureau, cabinet, commission, department, authority, officer, or other entity in the executive branch of state government authorized by law to conduct administrative hearings. See Kentucky Statutes 13B.010
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Attorney: means attorney-at-law. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
- Federal: refers to the United States. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
- Final order: means the whole or part of the final disposition of an administrative hearing, whenever made effective by an agency head, whether affirmative, negative, injunctive, declaratory, agreed, or imperative in form. See Kentucky Statutes 13B.010
- hearing: means any type of formal adjudicatory proceeding conducted by an agency as required or permitted by statute or regulation to adjudicate the legal rights, duties, privileges, or immunities of a named person. See Kentucky Statutes 13B.010
- Hearing officer: means the individual, duly qualified and employed pursuant to this chapter, assigned by an agency head as presiding officer for an administrative hearing or the presiding member of the agency head. See Kentucky Statutes 13B.010
- Party: means :
(a) The named person whose legal rights, duties, privileges, or immunities are being adjudicated in the administrative hearing. See Kentucky Statutes 13B.010 - Recommended order: means the whole or part of a preliminary hearing report to an agency head for the disposition of an administrative hearing. See Kentucky Statutes 13B.010
- Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
- Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
(3) The final order in an administrative hearing shall be in writing and stated in the record. If the final order differs from the recommended order, it shall include separate statements of findings of fact and conclusions of law. The final order shall also include the effective date of the order and a statement advising parties fully of available appeal rights.
(4) Except as otherwise required by federal law, the agency head shall render a final order in an administrative hearing within ninety (90) days after:
(a) The receipt of the official record of the hearing in which there was no hearing officer submitting a recommended order under KRS § 13B.110; or
(b) The hearing officer submits a recommended order to the agency head, unless the matter is remanded to the hearing officer for further proceedings.
(5) Unless waived by the party, a copy of the final order shall be transmitted to each party or to his attorney of record in the same manner as provided in KRS § 13B.050.
(6) This section shall not apply to disposition pursuant to KRS § 13B.070(3).
(7) If, pursuant to statute, an agency may review the final order of another agency, the review is deemed to be a continuous proceeding as if before a single agency. The final order of the first agency is treated as a recommended order and the second agency functions as though it were reviewing a recommended order in accordance with this section.
Effective: July 15, 1996
History: Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 318, sec. 11, effective July 15, 1996. — Created
1994 Ky. Acts ch. 382, sec. 12, effective July 15, 1996.