(a) The executive director of the Office of Higher Education may assess any person, school, board, association or corporation which violates any provision of section 10a-34 or 10a-35 an administrative penalty in an amount not to exceed five hundred dollars for each day of such violation.
(b) (1) The executive director of the Office of Higher Education shall serve written notice upon the person, school, board, association or corporation when the assessment of such an administrative penalty is under consideration. The notice shall set forth the reasons for the assessment of the penalty.
(2) Not later than forty-five days after the executive director or the executive director's designee mails notice pursuant to subdivision (1) of this subsection to such person, school, board, association or corporation, the executive director or the executive director's designee shall hold a compliance conference with such person, school, board, association or corporation.
(c) If, after the compliance conference pursuant to subsection (b) of this section, the executive director determines that imposition of the administrative penalty is appropriate, the executive director shall issue an order and serve written notice by certified mail, return receipt requested upon the person, school, board, association or corporation.
(d) The person, school, board, association or corporation aggrieved by the order of the executive director imposing an administrative penalty pursuant to subsection (c) of this section shall, not later than fifteen days after such order is mailed, request, in writing, a hearing before the Office of Higher Education. Such hearing shall be held in accordance with the provisions of chapter 54.
(P.A. 07-90, S. 2; P.A. 11-48, S. 246; P.A. 12-156, S. 56; P.A. 13-118, S. 2.)
History: P.A. 07-90 effective January 1, 2008; P.A. 11-48 replaced “Commissioner of Higher Education” and “commissioner” with “executive director of the Office of Financial and Academic Affairs for Higher Education” and “executive director”, and, in Subsec. (d), replaced “Board of Governors of Higher Education” with “State Board of Education”, effective July 1, 2011; pursuant to P.A. 12-156, “Office of Financial and Academic Affairs for Higher Education” was changed editorially by the Revisors to “Office of Higher Education” in Subsecs. (a) and (b), effective June 15, 2012; P.A. 13-118 amended Subsec. (d) to replace “State Board of Education” with “Office of Higher Education”, effective July 1, 2013.
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