WSR 97-10-026
PERMANENT RULES
DEPARTMENT OF LICENSING
(Business and Professions Division)
[Filed April 30, 1997, 11:32 a.m.]
Date of Adoption: April 24, 1997.
Purpose: Explain the use of brief adjudicative procedure; list the required documents; provide the administrative procedures for appointing a presiding officer and conducting the proceedings; and provide administrative procedures for persons to obtain reinstatement of eligibility, certification, or registration for suspension or denial actions under brief adjudicative proceedings.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 18.96.060.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 96-22-108 on November 6, 1996.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 4, amended 0, repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's own Initiative: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 4, amended 0, repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 0, amended 0, repealed 0.
Effective Date of Rule: Thirty-one days after filing.
April 24, 1997
Stuart Deysenroth
Board Chairman
NEW SECTION
WAC 308-13-210 Application of brief adjudicative proceedings. The board adopts RCW 34.05.482 through 34.05.494 for the administration of brief adjudicative proceedings conducted by request for the categories of matters set out below or at the discretion of the board chair pursuant to RCW 34.05.482. If an adjudicative proceeding is requested, a brief adjudicative proceeding will be conducted where the matter is limited solely to one or more of the following issues:
(1) A determination whether an applicant for registration meets the minimum criteria for certification to practice as a landscape architect in this state and the board proposes to deny the application;
(2) A determination whether a person is in compliance with the terms and conditions of a final order or agreement previously issued by the board;
(3) A determination whether an applicant for or in the examination process shall be denied to sit for future examinations;
(4) A determination whether a certificate holder requesting renewal or reinstatement has submitted all required information and meets minimum criteria for renewal or reinstatement; and
(5) A determination whether a certificate holder has been certified
by a lending agency and reported for nonpayment or default on a federally
or state-guaranteed student loan or service-conditional scholarship.
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NEW SECTION
WAC 308-13-220 Preliminary record in brief adjudicative proceedings. (1) The preliminary record with respect to an application for an original or renewal license shall consist of:
(a) The application for the license, renewal, reinstatement or approval and all associated documents; and
(b) All documents relied upon by the program in proposing to deny the application, renewal, reinstatement or approval; and
(c) All correspondence between the applicant for license, renewal, reinstatement or approval and the program regarding the application.
(2) The preliminary record with respect to determination of compliance with a previously issued final order or agreement shall consist of:
(a) The previously issued final order or agreement;
(b) All reports or other documents submitted by, or at the direction of, the license holder, in full or partial fulfillment of the terms of the final order or agreement;
(c) All correspondence between the license holder and the program, regarding compliance with the final order or agreement; and
(d) All documents relied upon by the program showing that the license holder has failed to comply with the previously issued final order or agreement.
(3) The preliminary record with respect to the determination of nonpayment or default by the license holder on a federally or state-guaranteed student loan or service-conditional scholarship shall consist of:
(a) Certification and report by the lending agency that the identified person is in default or nonpayment on a federally or state-guaranteed student loan or service-conditional scholarship; or
(b) A written release, if any, issued by the lending agency stating
that the identified person is making payment on the loan in accordance
with a repayment agreement approved by the lending agency.
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NEW SECTION
WAC 308-13-230 Conduct of brief adjudicative proceedings. (1) Brief adjudicative proceedings shall be conducted by a presiding officer for brief adjudicative proceedings designated by the board chair. The presiding officer for brief adjudicative proceedings shall have agency expertise in the subject matter but shall not have personally participated in the decision to issue the initiating document.
(2) The parties or their representatives may present written documentation. The presiding officer for brief adjudicative proceedings shall designate the date by which written documents must be submitted by the parties.
(3) The presiding officer for brief adjudicative proceedings may, in his or her discretion, entertain oral argument from the parties or their representatives.
(4) No witnesses may appear to testify.
(5) In addition to the record, the presiding officer for brief adjudicative proceedings may employ agency expertise as a basis for decision.
(6) The presiding officer for brief adjudicative proceedings shall
not issue an oral order. Within ten days of the final date for
submission of materials or oral argument, if any, the presiding officer
for brief adjudicative proceedings shall enter an initial order.
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NEW SECTION
WAC 308-13-240 Reinstatement of suspended certificates, eligibility
for registration, or denied renewals. Where a person's certificate of
registration has been suspended, an applicant has been denied certificate
renewal, or an applicant has been denied the ability to take the
examination for certificate of registration due to nonpayment or default
on a federally or state-guaranteed educational loan or service-conditional scholarship, his or her certificate renewal or examination
application will be reinstated when the person provides the board a
written release issued by the lending agency stating that the person is
making payments on the loan in accordance with a repayment agreement
approved by the lending agency, provided, the person shall pay any
applicable reinstatement or renewal fee.
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