2014 Arkansas Code
Title 23 - Public Utilities and Regulated Industries
Subtitle 2 - Financial Institutions And Securities
Chapter 39 - Mortgage Loan Companies and Loan Brokers
Subchapter 5 - Fair Mortgage Lending Act
§ 23-39-515 - Review of order of the commissioner.
(a) (1) Any person aggrieved by a final order of the Securities Commissioner may obtain a review of the order by filing in the Pulaski County Circuit Court within sixty (60) days after the entry of the order a written petition praying that the order be modified or set aside in whole or in part.
(2) (A) A copy of the petition shall be served upon the commissioner, after which the commissioner shall certify and file in court a copy of the filing and evidence upon which the order was entered.
(B) When a petition under subdivision (a)(1) of this section has been filed, the court has exclusive jurisdiction to affirm, modify, enforce, or set aside any order of the commissioner in whole or in part, except that a court may not set aside a summary order entered by the commissioner when the subject of the order has not requested a hearing before the commissioner as provided in ยง 23-39-514(c)(1) or (d)(1).
(b) (1) The findings of the commissioner as to the facts are conclusive if supported by competent, material, and substantial evidence.
(2) If either party applies to the court for leave to submit additional material evidence and shows to the satisfaction of the court that there were reasonable grounds for failure to submit the evidence in the hearing before the commissioner, the court may order the additional evidence to be taken before the commissioner and to be submitted upon the hearing before the commissioner in any manner and upon any condition as the court considers to be proper.
(3) After consideration of the additional evidence, the commissioner may modify his or her findings and order and shall file in the court the additional evidence together with any modified or new findings or order.
(c) Unless specifically ordered by the court, the commencement of proceedings under subsection (a) of this section does not operate as a stay of the commissioner's order.
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