Texas Government Code Title 10, Chapter 2003 - State Office Of Administrative Hearings

SUBCHAPTER A GENERAL PROVISIONS

SUBCHAPTER B STATE OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS

• Texas Section 2003.001 - Definitions
  In this chapter: (1) "Administrative law judge" means an individual who presides at an administrative hearing held under Chapter 2001. (2) "Alternative dispute resolution procedure"...
• Texas Section 2003.021 - Office
  (a) The State Office of Administrative Hearings is a state agency created to serve as an independent forum for the conduct of adjudicative hearings in...
• Texas Section 2003.022 - Chief Administrative Law Judge
  (a) The office is under the direction of a chief administrative law judge appointed by the governor for a two-year term. The chief administrative law...
• Texas Section 2003.0221 - Removal Of Chief Administrative Law Judge
  It is a ground for removal from the position of chief administrative law judge that an appointee: (1) does not have at the time of...
• Texas Section 2003.0225 - Conflict Of Interest
  (a) In this section, "Texas trade association" means a cooperative and voluntarily joined statewide association of business or professional competitors in this state designed to...
• Texas Section 2003.0226 - Information Regarding Requirements For Employment And Standards Of Conduct
  The chief administrative law judge or the chief administrative law judge's designee shall provide to office employees, as often as necessary, information regarding the requirements...
• Texas Section 2003.023 - Sunset Provision
  The State Office of Administrative Hearings is subject to review under Chapter 325 (Texas Sunset Act), but is not abolished under that chapter. The office...
• Texas Section 2003.024 - Interagency Contracts; Anticipated Hourly Usage And Cost Estimates
  (a) If a state agency referred matters to the office during any of the three most recent state fiscal years for which complete information about...

SUBCHAPTER C STAFF AND ADMINISTRATION

• Texas Section 2003.025 - Required Information Regarding Anticipated Hourly Usage
  (a) This section applies to a state agency that has entered into a contract with the office for the conduct of hearings and alternative dispute...
• Texas Section 2003.041 - Employment Of Administrative Law Judges
  (a) The chief administrative law judge shall employ administrative law judges to conduct hearings for state agencies subject to this chapter. (b) To be eligible...
• Texas Section 2003.0411 - Senior And Master Administrative Law Judges
  (a) The chief administrative law judge may appoint senior or master administrative law judges to perform duties assigned by the chief administrative law judge. (b)...
• Texas Section 2003.0412 - Ex Parte Consultations
  (a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), the provisions of Section 2001.061 apply in relation to a matter before the office without regard to whether...
• Texas Section 2003.042 - Powers Of Administrative Law Judge
  (a) An administrative law judge employed by the office or a temporary administrative law judge may: (1) administer an oath; (2) take testimony; (3) rule...
• Texas Section 2003.0421 - Sanctions
  (a) An administrative law judge employed by the office or a temporary administrative law judge, on the judge's own motion or on motion of a...
• Texas Section 2003.043 - Temporary Administrative Law Judge
  (a) The chief administrative law judge may contract with a qualified individual to serve as a temporary administrative law judge if an administrative law judge...
• Texas Section 2003.044 - Staff
  The chief administrative law judge may hire staff as required to perform the powers and duties of the office. Added by Acts 1993, 73rd Leg.,...
• Texas Section 2003.045 - Oversight Of Administrative Law Judges
  The chief administrative law judge may designate senior or master administrative law judges to oversee the training, evaluation, discipline, and promotion of administrative law judges...
• Texas Section 2003.0451 - Training
  (a) The office shall provide at least 30 hours of continuing legal education and judicial training to each new administrative law judge employed by the...
• Texas Section 2003.046 - Central Hearings Panel
  (a) A central hearings panel in the office is composed of administrative law judges and senior or master administrative law judges assigned to the panel...
• Texas Section 2003.047 - Hearings For Texas Commission On Environmental Quality
  (a) The office shall perform contested case hearings for the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. (b) The office shall conduct hearings relating to contested cases...
• Texas Section 2003.048 - Texas Commission On Environmental Quality Hearings Fee
  The office shall charge the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality a fixed annual fee rather than an hourly rate for services rendered by the office...
• Texas Section 2003.049 - Utility Hearings
  (a) The office shall perform contested case hearings for the Public Utility Commission of Texas as prescribed by the Public Utility Regulatory Act of 1995...
• Texas Section 2003.050 - Procedural Rules
  (a) The chief administrative law judge shall adopt rules that govern the procedures, including the discovery procedures, that relate to a hearing conducted by the...
• Texas Section 2003.051 - Role Of Referring Agency
  (a) Except in connection with interim appeals of orders or questions certified to an agency by an administrative law judge, as permitted by law, a...
• Texas Section 2003.052 - Handling Of Complaints
  (a) The office shall maintain a file on each written complaint filed with the office. The file must include: (1) the name of the person...
• Texas Section 2003.053 - Equal Employment Opportunity Policy
  (a) The chief administrative law judge or the chief administrative law judge's designee shall prepare and maintain a written policy statement that implements a program...
• Texas Section 2003.055 - Effective Use Of Technology
  The chief administrative law judge shall develop and implement a policy requiring the chief administrative law judge and office employees to research and propose appropriate...
• Texas Section 2003.056 - Alternative Dispute Resolution Policy
  The chief administrative law judge shall develop and implement a policy to encourage the use of alternative dispute resolution procedures where appropriate to assist in...

SUBCHAPTER D TAX HEARINGS

• Texas Section 2003.057 - Hearing Translator
  If a translator is requested for all or part of a hearing conducted by the office, the office shall provide an appropriate translator for that...
• Texas Section 2003.101 - Tax Hearings
  (a) The office shall conduct hearings relating to contested cases involving the collection, receipt, administration, and enforcement of taxes, fees, and other amounts as prescribed...
• Texas Section 2003.103 - Timeliness Of Hearings
  (a) The office shall conduct all hearings under this subchapter in a timely manner. (b) The office shall use every reasonable means to expedite a...
• Texas Section 2003.104 - Confidentiality Of Tax Hearing Information
  (a) The office shall keep information that identifies a taxpayer who participates in a case under this subchapter confidential, including the taxpayer's name and social...
• Texas Section 2003.105 - Tax Hearings Fee
  The office shall charge the comptroller a fixed annual fee rather than an hourly rate for services rendered by the office to the comptroller. The...
• Texas Section 2003.108 - Reports
  (a) The office shall provide the comptroller a monthly status report that lists pending cases and provides information on any case that exceeds the comptroller's...
• Texas Section 2003.109 - Rules; Early Referral
  (a) The comptroller may adopt rules to provide for the referral to the office of issues related to a case described by Section 111.00455, Tax...
• Texas Section 2003.901 - Appeals From Appraisal Review Board Determinations
  As an alternative to filing an appeal under Section 42.01, Tax Code, a property owner may appeal to the office an appraisal review board order...
• Texas Section 2003.902 - Participating Offices And Remote Hearing Sites
  The office shall hear appeals filed under this subchapter only in: (1) Amarillo; (2) Austin; (3) Beaumont; (4) Corpus Christi; (5) El Paso; (6) Fort...
• Texas Section 2003.903 - Rules
  (a) The office has rulemaking authority to implement this subchapter. (b) The office has specific rulemaking authority to implement those rules necessary to expeditiously determine...
• Texas Section 2003.904 - Applicability To Real And Personal Property
  This subchapter applies only to an appeal of a determination of the appraised or market value made by an appraisal review board in connection with...
• Texas Section 2003.905 - Education And Training Of Administrative Law Judges
  (a) An administrative law judge assigned to hear an appeal brought under this subchapter must have knowledge of: (1) each of the appraisal methods a...
• Texas Section 2003.906 - Notice Of Appeal To Office; Deposit
  (a) To appeal an appraisal review board order to the office under this subchapter, a property owner must file with the chief appraiser of the...
• Texas Section 2003.907 - Contents Of Notice Of Appeal
  The chief administrative law judge by rule shall prescribe the form of a notice of appeal under this subchapter. The form must require the property...
• Texas Section 2003.908 - Notice To Property Owners
  An appraisal review board that delivers notice of issuance of an order described by Section 2003.901 of this code pertaining to property described by Section...
• Texas Section 2003.909 - Designation Of Administrative Law Judge; Location Of Hearing
  (a) As soon as practicable after the office receives a notice of appeal and the filing fee, the office shall designate an administrative law judge...
• Texas Section 2003.910 - Scope Of Appeal; Hearing
  (a) An appeal is by trial de novo. The administrative law judge may not admit into evidence the fact of previous action by the appraisal...
• Texas Section 2003.911 - Representation Of Parties
  (a) A property owner may be represented at the hearing by: (1) the property owner; (2) an attorney who is licensed in this state; (3)...
• Texas Section 2003.912 - Determination Of Administrative Law Judge
  (a) As soon as practicable, but not later than the 30th day after the date the hearing is concluded, the administrative law judge shall issue...
• Texas Section 2003.913 - Payment Of Taxes Pending Appeal
  (a) The pendency of an appeal to the office does not affect the delinquency date for the taxes on the property subject to the appeal....
• Texas Section 2003.914 - Effect On Right To Judicial Appeal
  An appeal to the office under this subchapter is an election of remedies and an alternative to bringing an appeal under Section 42.01, Tax Code....

Last modified: September 28, 2016