21 NCAC 58A .0614. SUMMARY SUSPENSION

(a)  If the Commission finds that the public health, safety, or welfare requires emergency action, it may, pursuant to G.S. 150B-3(c), summarily suspend a license without a hearing or opportunity for the licensee to be heard.  A motion for summary suspension shall be presented to the Chairman of the Commission by counsel for the State and may be presented ex parte.  The motion shall be supported by an affidavit of a person with first-hand knowledge of the facts alleged which require emergency action.

(b)  The Commission shall, when it summarily suspends a license, immediately schedule a hearing, to occur at the earliest practicable date, on the merits of the charges set out in a notice of hearing issued contemporaneously with the order of summary suspension.  The motion, supporting affidavit, order for summary suspension and notice of hearing shall be served on the licensee as soon as possible and the summary suspension shall be effective no earlier than the date of service of the summary suspension order on the licensee.  The order of summary suspension shall remain in effect until the Commission vacates it.

(c)  A summarily suspended licensee may petition the Commission to vacate the summary suspension order.  If the Chairman of the Commission finds that the summary suspension order was issued in error or on insufficient factual grounds to justify emergency action, the Chairman of the Commission may vacate the summary suspension order.

(d)  Neither an order of summary suspension nor a denial of a motion to vacate an order of summary suspension is a final agency decision.

 

History Note:        Authority G.S. 93A-6(a); 150B-3(c);

Eff. August 1, 1998.