Within ninety days following an applicant's request for hearing or the commission's order granting a motion to intervene and request for hearing filed in accordance with § 51A-2-16, the commission shall conduct a hearing on the application. The commission shall consider the evidence presented at the hearing and the director's findings and other pertinent information submitted by the director in accordance with § 51A-3-9. The commission shall, within forty-five days from the date of the hearing, prepare and file in appropriate written form, findings of fact and conclusions of law which shall become a permanent part of the record relating to the pending application.
SDCL 51A-3-10