Section 20.02.055 Licensing appeals board created.

The first resident appointed shall be chairperson of the board and shall serve for three years. The second resident appointed shall serve for two years. Thereafter, all appointments shall be for three years and the most senior resident appointee shall be the chair.

2. The licensing appeal board shall meet upon the call of the chairperson to consider appeals of applicants for a license to practice a trade or profession regulated under this title from decisions of the appropriate examining board regarding the testing or the issuance of a license.

3. Any person who is an applicant for a license to practice a trade or profession regulated under the provisions of this title, and who is aggrieved by a decision of the appropriate examining board, may appeal to the licensing appeals board.

4. Appeals shall be filed by the aggrieved party within ten days after the decision of the board giving rise to the applicant's claim. Written notice of appeal must be filed with the manager and shall set forth a statement of the grounds for such appeal and a request for a hearing before the license appeals board. The manager shall immediately forward such petition to the chairperson of the license appeals board.

5. Within ten days of receipt of such petition, the board's chairperson shall set a time and place for hearing on said appeal, and shall give the applicant, the manager, the appropriate licensing board and all other interested parties notice thereof. At such hearing, the petitioner, the manager, the appropriate licensing board, and all interested parties shall be given an opportunity to be heard, and to show cause why such decisions should be sustained, modified, or withdrawn. The hearing before the board shall be commenced not later than thirty days after the date on which the petition was filed; provided, that upon written application of the petitioner, the board may postpone the date of hearing for a reasonable time beyond such thirty-day period if, in their judgment, the petitioner has submitted a good and sufficient reason for such postponement. The chairperson of the board shall have the power to administer oaths and affirmations in connection with the conducting of any hearing held in accordance with the provisions of this section.

6. After such hearing, the board shall sustain, modify or withdraw the decision of the examining board. If the board sustains or modifies or withdraws a decision of the examining board, it shall be deemed to be an order, and the applicant and the affected examining board, as the case may require, shall comply with all provisions of such order.

7. The determination and disposition of an appeal made by the board shall be summarized, reduced to writing, and entered as a matter of public record in the office of the manager. The secretary of the board shall notify all appealing parties of the board's determination and disposition of appeal by written notice.