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17A.11 Presiding officer---administrative law judges.

1. The presiding officer in evidentiary hearings required to be conducted by an agency according to the provisions of this chapter governing contested cases shall be the agency, one or more members of a multimember agency, or an administrative law judge appointed according to the terms of this section. Each agency needing the services of one or more permanent full- time or part-time administrative law judges shall appoint as many of them to its staff as are necessary for this purpose. Agencies shall assign administrative law judges to cases in rotation unless it is not feasible. Administrative law judges shall not perform duties inconsistent with their duties and responsibilities as administrative law judges.

2. Administrative law judges are covered by the merit system of personnel administration, chapter 19A. The department of personnel or other appropriate agency specified in section 19A.3 shall, insofar as practicable, provide for different classes of administrative law judges with different salary scales.

3. An agency whose work load is such that the appointment of a permanent full-time or part-time administrative law judge is unwarranted, or an agency whose work load is such that one or more additional administrative law judges are temporarily required, may use administrative law judges selected by the department of personnel from other agencies having administrative law judges that are temporarily available and that are qualified to preside at the hearings held by the agency requesting the temporary use of an administrative law judge. In cases where an agency borrows one or more administrative law judges from other agencies, the salaries and expenses of those administrative law judges shall be apportioned and charged to the several agencies according to their use.

Section History: Early form

[C75, 77, 79, 81, § 17A.11]

Section History: Recent form

88 Acts, ch 1109, § 4

Internal References

Referred to in § 169.5, 256B.6, 421.17, 524.228, 533.6A

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