13B.010 Definitions for chapter.

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Page 1 of 1 13B.010 Definitions for chapter. As used in this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise: <br>(1) &quot;Administrative agency&quot; or &quot;agency&quot; means each state board, bureau, cabinet, commission, department, authority, officer, or other entity in the executive branch <br>of state government authorized by law to conduct administrative hearings. (2) &quot;Administrative hearing&quot; or &quot;hearing&quot; means any type of formal adjudicatory proceeding conducted by an agency as required or permitted by statute or regulation <br>to adjudicate the legal rights, duties, privileges, or immunities of a named person. (3) &quot;Party&quot; means: (a) The named person whose legal rights, duties, privileges, or immunities are being adjudicated in the administrative hearing; (b) Any other person who is duly granted intervention in an administrative hearing; and (c) Any agency named as a party to the adjudicatory proceeding or entitled or permitted by the law being enforced to participate fully in the administrative <br>hearing. (4) &quot;Agency head&quot; means the individual or collegial body in an agency that is responsible for entry of a final order. (5) &quot;Recommended order&quot; means the whole or part of a preliminary hearing report to an agency head for the disposition of an administrative hearing. (6) &quot;Final order&quot; means the whole or part of the final disposition of an administrative hearing, whenever made effective by an agency head, whether affirmative, negative, <br>injunctive, declaratory, agreed, or imperative in form. (7) &quot;Hearing officer&quot; means the individual, duly qualified and employed pursuant to this chapter, assigned by an agency head as presiding officer for an administrative <br>hearing or the presiding member of the agency head. (8) &quot;Division&quot; means the Division of Administrative Hearings in the Office of the Attorney General created pursuant to KRS 15.111. Effective: July 15, 1996 <br>History: Amended 1996 Ky. Acts ch. 318, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1996. -- Created 1994 Ky. Acts ch. 382, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1996.