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116C.58 Public hearings; notice.

The board shall hold an annual public hearing at a time and place prescribed by rule in order to afford interested persons an opportunity to be heard regarding its inventory of study areas and any other aspects of the board's activities and duties or policies specified in sections 116C.51 to 116C.69. The board shall hold at least one public hearing in each county where a site or route is being considered for designation pursuant to section 116C.57. Notice and agenda of public hearings and public meetings of the board held in each county shall be given by the board at least ten days in advance but no earlier than 45 days prior to such hearings or meetings. Notice shall be by publication in a legal newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the public hearing or public meeting is to be held and by certified mailed notice to chief executives of the regional development commissions, counties, organized towns and the incorporated municipalities in which a site or route is proposed. All hearings held for designating a site or route or for exempting a route shall be conducted by an administrative law judge from the office of administrative hearings pursuant to the contested case procedures of chapter 14. Any person may appear at the hearings and present testimony and exhibits and may question witnesses without the necessity of intervening as a formal party to the proceedings.

HIST: 1973 c 591 s 8; 1975 c 271 s 6; 1977 c 439 s 11; 1980 c 615 s 60; 1982 c 424 s 130; 1984 c 640 s 32

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