(a) The agency, after consultation with the attorney general, shall, if appropriate, hold a public hearing during the course of review, which hearing may be held jointly with the certificate of need review panel or the statewide health coordinating council, and in which any person may file written comments and exhibits or appear and make a statement. The agency or the attorney general may subpoena additional information or witnesses, require and administer oaths, require sworn statements, take depositions, and use related discovery procedures for purposes of the hearing and at any time prior to making a decision on the application.

Terms Used In Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-74

  • Certificate of need: means an authorization, when required pursuant to § 323D-43, to construct, expand, alter, or convert a health care facility or to initiate, expand, develop, or modify a health care service. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
  • Discovery: Lawyers' examination, before trial, of facts and documents in possession of the opponents to help the lawyers prepare for trial.
  • Health: includes physical and mental health. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
  • Person: means an individual or a natural person, a trust or estate, a society, a firm, an assembly, a partnership, a corporation, a professional corporation, an association, the State, any political subdivision of the State, a county, a state agency or any instrumentality of the State, a county agency or any instrumentality of a county. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
  • Review panel: means the panel established pursuant to § 323D-42. See Hawaii Revised Statutes 323D-2
  • Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
(b) The hearing shall be held no later than sixty days after receipt of a complete application. The hearing shall be held upon ten working days notice, not including days the application is deemed to be incomplete.

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