2010 Tennessee Code
Title 40 - Criminal Procedure
Chapter 33 - Forfeitures
Part 2 - Forfeiture Procedures Generally
40-33-209 - Hearing officer.

40-33-209. Hearing officer.

(a)  The administrative head of the applicable agency is authorized to appoint or designate a hearing officer to sit and set the case on the docket. The applicable agency may also contract with the secretary of state for use of administrative law judges to conduct the forfeiture hearings or the administrative head or the applicable agency may conduct the hearings.

(b)  The hearing officer or administrative judge is empowered to subpoena witnesses and compel their attendance and to produce records, memoranda, papers and other documents at any hearing authorized by this part.

(c)  At all hearings conducted pursuant to this part, the applicable agency shall provide a stenographer or court reporter to take a stenographic record of the evidence adduced at the hearing. Upon application, the claimant shall be entitled to a copy of the stenographic record upon payment of the reasonable costs thereof to be fixed by the administrative head of the applicable agency.

(d)  All hearings conducted pursuant to this part shall be contested case hearings and shall be conducted pursuant to the Uniform Administrative Procedures Act, compiled in title 4, chapter 5.

[Acts 1994, ch. 925, § 1.]