La. Admin. Code tit. 46 § XXV-911

Current through Register Vol. 50, No. 9, September 20, 2024

Section XXV-911 - Notice of Administrative Complaint and Hearing Scheduling

A. Upon the docketing of the administrative complaint, the board should schedule the complaint for a hearing before a hearing panel of the board. This hearing shall take place not less than 30 days nor more than 150 days of the docketing of the complaint, provided that the time for the hearing may be lengthened as the board deems necessary or appropriate, or upon good cause shown by motion of the attorney general or respondent.

B. If the board finds that public health, safety, or welfare imperatively requires emergency action and incorporates a finding to that effect in its order, the board may enter an order of summary suspension of the respondent social worker's license pending proceedings for revocation or other action in accordance with R.S. 49:961(C). In that event, the scheduled hearing on the summary suspension shall be noticed and scheduled not more than 45 days after the order of such summary suspension. Scheduling may extend beyond the 45 day period if requested by the involved social worker.

C. The respondent social worker will be served written notice of the administrative complaint; the time, date, and place of the scheduled hearing; and a copy of the board's rules, standards, and procedures by registered, return-receipt-requested mail, as well as by regular first class mail. The notice will be sent to the most current address for the respondent social worker as reflected in the official records of the board. The notice shall include a statement of the legal authority and jurisdiction under which the hearing is to be held and shall be accompanied by a certified copy of the administrative complaint. If the hearing panel of the board has been designated at the time of the notice, the notice shall contain the names of the panel members.

La. Admin. Code tit. 46, § XXV-911

Promulgated by the Department of Health and Hospitals, Board of Certified Social Work Examiners, LR 29:2393 (November 2003), amended by the Department of Health and Hospitals, Board of Social Work Examiners, LR 40:307 (February 2014).

AUTHORITY NOTE: Promulgated in accordance with R.S. 37:2705.C.