162-A:19 Hearings. –
I. Promptly after the beginning of each calendar year the authority shall conduct a public hearing regarding the use of any available contingent credit limit under RSA 162-A:22 and regarding the allocation of such available contingent credit limit among uses authorized by this chapter. Such hearing may be held before a hearing officer appointed by the authority who shall make a report of the hearing to the board before any final action is taken by the authority that uses a portion of the contingent credit limit.
II. Promptly after the beginning of each calendar year, before the authority makes its first assignment of state ceiling under RSA 162-M, the authority shall conduct a public hearing regarding the use of state ceiling by the authority for that year. Such hearing may be held before a hearing officer appointed by the authority who shall make a report of the hearing to the board before the authority assigns any state ceiling under RSA 162-M:2, III.
III. Any hearing required to be held by the governor and council under this chapter may be held by a single councilor as their designee, who shall make a report of the hearing to the governor and council prior to the making of any findings.
IV. Any hearings held under this chapter shall be for the information of the governor and council or the authority and shall not be treated as determining the rights, duties, or privileges of any entity or person. Neither the authority nor the governor and council shall be required to conduct adjudicative proceedings under RSA 541-A:31-36 in connection with any action taken under this chapter.
V. The authority shall hold the first hearings under RSA 162-A:19, I and II at the beginning of calendar year 1993.