[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 20, Volume 1]

[Revised as of April 1, 2005]

From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access

[CITE: 20CFR320.18]



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                      TITLE 20--EMPLOYEES' BENEFITS

 

                  CHAPTER II--RAILROAD RETIREMENT BOARD

 

PART 320_INITIAL DETERMINATIONS UNDER THE RAILROAD UNEMPLOYMENT 

INSURANCE ACT AND REVIEWS OF AND APPEALS FROM SUCH DETERMINATIONS

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Sec.  320.18  Hearings officer.



    Within a reasonable time after a party has filed a properly executed 

appeal, the Director of Hearings and Appeals shall appoint a hearings 

officer to act in the appeal. Such hearings officer shall not have any 

interest in the parties or in the outcome of the proceeding, shall not 

have directly participated in the initial determination from which the 

appeal is made, and shall not have any other interest in the matter 

which might prevent a fair and impartial hearing. In any case in which 

employee status or creditability of compensation is an issue, the 

hearings officer shall receive evidence and report to the Board thereon 

with recommendations. In all other cases, the hearings officer shall 

consider and decide the appeal; in each such case where the hearings 

officer determines that an issue of fact exists, the parties shall have 

the right to a hearing.



[56 FR 65680, Dec. 18, 1991]