TITLE 49. STATE ADMINISTRATION

CHAPTER 13. ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE

49:959        Rehearings

A. A decision or order in a case of adjudication shall be subject to rehearing, reopening, or reconsideration by the agency, within ten days from the date of its entry.  The grounds for such action shall be either that:

(1) The decision or order is clearly contrary to the law and the evidence;

(2) The party has discovered since the hearing evidence important to the issues which he could not have with due diligence obtained before or during the hearing;

(3) There is a showing that issues not previously considered ought to be examined in order properly to dispose of the matter;  or

(4) There is other good ground for further consideration of the issues and the evidence in the public interest.

B. The petition of a party for rehearing, reconsideration, or review, and the order of the agency granting it, shall set forth the grounds which justify such action.  Nothing in this Section shall prevent rehearing, reopening or reconsideration of a matter by any agency in accordance with other statutory provisions applicable to such agency, or, at any time, on the ground of fraud practiced by the prevailing party or of procurement of the order by perjured testimony or fictitious evidence.  On reconsideration, reopening, or rehearing, the matter may be heard by the agency, or it may be referred to a subordinate deciding officer.  The hearing shall be confined to those grounds upon which the reconsideration, reopening, or rehearing was ordered.  If an application for rehearing shall be timely filed, the period within which judicial review, under the applicable statute, must be sought, shall run from the final disposition of such application.

Added by Acts 1966, No. 382, § 9, eff. July 1, 1967.