The commission shall determine the time and place of the hearing after consulting the office of administrative hearings and the parties to the appeal. The hearing officer conducting the hearing may grant continuances under such conditions as he or she deems appropriate, provided, if no hearing officer has been assigned to a hearing the commission may grant continuances under such conditions as it deems appropriate. The party requesting a continuance shall pay any charges imposed by the office of administrative hearings in connection with such continuance, except in those instances where the continuance is granted to afford a party the opportunity to obtain rebuttal evidence to additional evidence (as additional evidence is defined in Section 2.124.2250 of this chapter), in which case the charges shall be paid by the party who offered the additional evidence. (Prior code § 34.14.1405)