410-1-8-.01. Public Hearing During Course Of Review

Each application for a Certificate of Need shall be accorded a public hearing during the course of the project's review, which will be held at the monthly meeting of the Certificate of Need Review Board unless the applicant or intervenor of record shall have timely requested that the application or competing applications be assigned to an Administrative Law Judge for a contested hearing pursuant to the requirements of the Alabama Administrative Procedure Act. Upon timely written request on or before the fifty-fifth (55th) day of the review period, the applicant or any intervenor of record may request that the application be assigned to an Administrative Law Judge for such contested hearing. If no such party of record shall have made a timely request for assignment to an Administrative Law Judge, the application or competing application shall be heard before the Certificate of Need Review Board at public hearing as provided above.