(a) The presiding officer who has been designated the authority to conduct the hearing shall submit to the board a written proposal for disposition containing:
- (1) The disposition proposed by the presiding officer;
- (2) A statement of the reasons for the proposed disposition; and
- (3) Findings of fact and rulings of law necessary to the proposed disposition.
- (b) The board shall render a decision and dispose of a matter as it sees fit under the circumstances, including the possible sanctions of warning, suspension of a certificate, or revocation of a certificate, or other appropriate action. The decision will not become final until the possibility of rehearing and filing of exceptions under RSA 541-A: 34 are exhausted.
- (c) The board shall keep a final decision in its records for at least 5 years following its date of issuance, unless the director of the division of records management and archives of the department of state sets a different retention period pursuant to rules adopted under RSA 5:40.
Source. #9287, eff 10-1-08; ss by #11067, eff 4-1-16