Section Hab 201.31 - Requests for Findings of Fact and Rulings of Law and Legal Memoranda and Decisions/Orders(a) All requests for findings and rulings and hearing memoranda shall be submitted to the board at least 7 days before the hearing. When parties have leave to submit requests or memoranda after a hearing, the board shall provide the parties with a filing schedule. The party with the burden of proof shall file the first memorandum, and then the opposing party shall file its memorandum. Additional memoranda may only be filed by leave of the board, which shall be granted only when they will assist the board.(b) Requests for findings and rulings shall consist of separately numbered paragraphs with only one finding or ruling per paragraph. Unless specifically allowed by the board, parties shall be limited to a combined total of 15 requests for findings of fact or rulings of law. Requests that contain multiple findings or rulings shall be marked "neither granted nor denied."(c) Each party submitting written requests for findings of fact or rulings of law shall also submit a Microsoft Word compatible electronic version to clerk@hab.nh.gov.(d) Following the hearing, the board shall issue a decision or order with sufficient specificity to allow the parties to understand its basis.(e) The board shall retain each file for at least 8 years following the date of the final decision or the date of the decision on any appeal, unless the director of the division of archives and records management of the department of state sets a different retention period pursuant to rules adopted under RSA 5:40.N.H. Admin. Code § Hab 201.31
Derived from Volume XLI Number 32, Filed August 12, 2021, Proposed by #13226, Effective 7/7/2021