The agency shall establish a unit for the filing of the official records of the adjudicatory cases. Subunits thereof may be established in the regional offices of the agency or by the various programs of the agency as required by the needs of the service.
The agency shall keep an official record of each adjudicatory procedure carried out according to the procedure established in this subchapter. The record shall include without being limited thereto:
(a) The notices of all the procedures.
(b) Any interlocutory order or resolution issued before the hearing.
(c) Any motion, allegation, petition or requirement.
(d) Any evidence received or considered.
(e) A statement of all the items of which official cognizance was made.
(f) Offers of evidence, objections and resolutions regarding the same.
(g) Proposals of findings of facts and conclusions of law, orders requested and exceptions.
(h) The memorandum drafted by the official who presided at the hearing, together with any transcription of all or part of the hearing considered before the final disposition of the procedure, in those cases in which the official who presided the hearing does not have the power to adjudicate.
(i) Any final order or final, preliminary or reconsidered resolution.
The agency’s record shall constitute the exclusive grounds for action by the agency in an adjudicatory procedure under this chapter and for the subsequent judicial review.
History —Aug. 12, 1988, No. 170, § 3.18, eff. 6 months after Aug. 12, 1988.