Indiana Code 22-4-17-5. Review board; appointments; hearings
(b) Any claim pending before an administrative law judge, and all proceedings arising from that claim, may be transferred to and determined by the review board upon its own motion, at any time before the administrative law judge announces a decision. If the review board considers it advisable to procure additional evidence, it may direct the taking of additional evidence within a time period it shall fix. An employer that is a party to a claim transferred to the review board under this subsection is entitled to receive notice in accordance with section 6 of this chapter of the transfer or any other action to be taken under this section before a determination is made or other action concerning the claim is taken.
Terms Used In Indiana Code 22-4-17-5
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- Quorum: The number of legislators that must be present to do business.
- Remand: When an appellate court sends a case back to a lower court for further proceedings.
- review board: means the unemployment insurance review board. See Indiana Code 22-4-2-38
(d) Members of the review board, when acting as administrative law judges, are subject to section 15 of this chapter.
(e) The review board may on the board’s own motion affirm, modify, set aside, remand, or reverse the findings, conclusions, or orders of an administrative law judge on the basis of any of the following:
(1) Evidence previously submitted to the administrative law judge.
(2) The record of the proceeding after the taking of additional evidence as directed by the review board.
(3) A procedural error by the administrative law judge.
Formerly: Acts 1947, c.208, s.1805; Acts 1965, c.190, s.12. As amended by P.L.34-1985, SEC.7; P.L.135-1990, SEC.9; P.L.173-1991, SEC.1; P.L.175-2009, SEC.30; P.L.171-2016, SEC.14; P.L.136-2018, SEC.113.