(a) After considering the examiner’s or committee’s report and any exceptions, proposals, and argument submitted, the board may adopt, reject, or modify such report in whole or in part. If the matter is then ready for decision, the board may proceed to make its decision.
(b) If the board does not decide the matter upon the examiner’s or committee’s report, the board may itself consider the matter either in whole or in part, upon the record, including the transcript, or may decide the matter after itself receiving the whole or any part of the evidence or may refer part or all of the matter to the same or another examiner or committee. If part of the matter is so referred to an examiner or committee, such examiner or committee shall prepare and submit to the board a report, including a proposed decision as provided in Section 19.37, upon the evidence heard by such examiner or committee, and the papers, records, and reports which are part of the record of the prior hearing, and thereafter the matter shall proceed as heretofore provided in the case of an original examiner’s or committee’s report. If additional evidence is received by the board itself no member thereof may vote on the matter unless the member has heard the additional testimony or has read a phonographic reporter’s transcript of the same, or if there was other additional evidence, unless the member has considered such other additional evidence. The board shall give such notice of its decision as is provided or required in cases where it makes no reference to an examiner.
SECTION HISTORY
Based on Ord. No. 95,338.