Iowa Administrative Code
Agency 605 - HOMELAND SECURITY AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT
Chapter 6 - CONTESTED CASES
Rule 605-6.6 - Presiding officer
Current through Register Vol. 46, No. 19, March 20, 2024
(1) Any party who wishes to request that the presiding officer assigned to render a proposed decision be an administrative law judge employed by the department of inspections and appeals must file a written request within 20 days after service of a notice of hearing which identifies or describes the presiding officer as the agency head or members of the agency.
(2) The agency may deny the request only upon a finding that one or more of the following apply:
(3) The agency shall issue a written ruling specifying the grounds for its decision within 20 days after a request for an administrative law judge is filed.
(4) Except as provided otherwise by another provision of law, all rulings by an administrative law judge acting as presiding officer are subject to appeal to the agency. A party must seek any available intra-agency appeal in order to exhaust adequate administrative remedies.
(5) Unless otherwise provided by law, agency heads and members of multimembered agency heads, when reviewing a proposed decision upon intra-agency appeal, shall have the powers of and shall comply with the provisions of this chapter which apply to presiding officers.