A. Hearings shall be held in the Insurance Commissioner's offices or at such other place as the Commissioner may deem convenient.
B. The Commissioner shall appoint an independent hearing examiner to preside at the hearing to sit in the capacity of a quasi-judicial officer.
C. All hearings will be public and held in accordance with, and governed by, Article II of the Administrative Procedures Act, Section 308a et seq. of Title 75 of the Oklahoma Statutes.
D. If at a hearing the person presiding determines that a license which was suspended prior to the hearing pursuant to Section 1311 of this title shall be revoked or suspended, the period of revocation or suspension shall be deemed to have begun on the date the license was suspended pending the hearing.
E. The Commissioner, upon written request reasonably made by the licensed bail bondsman affected by the hearing, and at such bail bondsman's expense, shall cause a full stenographic record of the proceedings to be made by a competent court reporter.
F. The ordinary fees and costs of such hearing examiner may be assessed by the hearing examiner against the respondent, unless the respondent is the prevailing party.
Added by Laws 1984, c. 225, § 12, emerg. eff. May 23, 1984. Amended by Laws 1987, c. 211, § 13, eff. Nov. 1, 1987; Laws 1989, c. 257, § 5, eff. Nov. 1, 1989; Laws 1994, c. 186, § 3, eff. Sept. 1, 1994; Laws 2001, c. 363, § 29, eff. July 1, 2001.