Alaska Administrative Code
Title 12 - Professional Regulations
Part 1 - Boards and Commissions Subject to Centralized Licensing
Chapter 12 - Business Licensing
Article 2 - Business License Endorsement for Sale of Tobacco Products, Electronic Smoking Products, and Products Containing Nicotine: Administrative Hearing and Review Procedures
12 AAC 12.840 - Evidence

(a) Oral evidence may be taken only on oath or affirmation.

(b) The aggrieved person and the department may each

(c) If the aggrieved person does not choose to testify on direct examination, the aggrieved person may be called and examined as if under cross-examination.

(d) The administrative hearing need not be conducted according to technical rules relating to evidence and witnesses. Relevant evidence shall be admitted if it is the sort of evidence on which responsible persons are accustomed to rely in the conduct of serious affairs, regardless of the existence of a common law or statutory rule that makes improper the admission of the evidence over objection in a civil action. Hearsay evidence may be used to supplement or explain direct evidence but is not sufficient by itself to support a finding unless it would be admissible over objection in a civil action. The rules of privilege are effective to the same extent that they are recognized in a civil action. Irrelevant and unduly repetitious evidence shall be excluded.