James Hanson
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The Rules of the Office of Administrative Hearings for ROC Cases: Title 2, Chapter 19 of the Arizona Administrative Code
If you have an ROC hearing, you are not going to have it at the Registrar of Contractors. You are going to have your hearing at the Office of Administrative Hearings. (You can read about that here: ROC Cases at OAH: Registrar of Contractor Hearings are Held at the Arizona Office of Administrative Hearings.) You need… Continue reading
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A Written Directive from the Registrar under A.R.S. § 32-1154(A)(22)
If the Registrar of Contractors investigates a homeowner’s complaint against a licensed contractor, and if the Registrar’s investigator finds items that he or she believes need to be corrected, then the Registrar will issue something called a written directive. The written directive will list the workmanship items in the complaint that need to be addressed.… Continue reading
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ROC Cases at OAH: Registrar of Contractor Hearings are Held at the Arizona Office of Administrative Hearings
If you are going to have a hearing in your Registar of Contractors case, the hearing will not be held at the ROC or supervised by the Registar. A separate state agency handles the administrative hearings for the Registrar: the Arizona Office of Administrative Hearings. The Office of Administrative Hearings is known as “OAH.” You… Continue reading
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Disclosure Requirements for ROC Hearings: Rule R4-9-118 of the Arizona Administrative Code
If you’re going to an ROC hearing at the Office of Administrative Hearings (known as “OAH”), you will need to send your disclosures to the other party and submit them to OAH. The disclosure rule is Rule R4-9-118 in the Arizona Administrative Code. You can find the text of that rule in this PDF. And… Continue reading
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Neglect, Modification, and Abnormal Use: Grounds for Stopping a Citation under A.R.S. § 32-1155(D)
In A.R.S. § 32-1155(D), the Legislature provides two different grounds that prohibit the Registrar from issuing a workmanship citation. Here, we are focusing on one of those grounds: the Registrar cannot issue a citation if the contractor’s work has been modified. Here is the statutory text in bold: D. The registrar may not issue a citation… Continue reading
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A.R.S. § 32-1155(A): The Registrar’s Sole Discretion to Issue a Citation
In A.R.S. § 32-1155(A), there is a statutory phrase that gives the Registar a lot of power. That phrase is “sole discretion.” Here is the statutory text: On the filing of a written complaint with the registrar charging a licensee with the commission of an act that is cause for suspension or revocation of a license,… Continue reading
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Revising the Arizona Construction Law Practice Manual: My 2016 Chapter about the Arizona Registrar of Contractors Updated for 2026
Back in 2016, when I was the Chief Counsel for the Arizona Registrar of Contractors, I was invited to contribute to a reference book: the Arizona Construction Law Practice Manual. (The manual is availabe from the Arizona State Bar here, if you’re interested.) The chapter I co-authored was called simply Registrar of Contractors Proceedings. Now,… Continue reading
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Huber v. Arizona Naturopathic Physicians Medical Board was Issued in September 2025
On September 30, 2025, the Arizona Court of Appeals issued its opinion in Huber v. Arizona Naturopathic Physicians Medical Board. This opinion is a big deal, because it discusses at length the revisions to A.R.S. § 12-910 that provide for a trial de novo. The Court’s opinion confirms that A.R.S. § 12-910 is every bit as radical… Continue reading
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A Baseball Game
It’s been a while since I’ve posted. There are various reasons for that, some of which are in fact out of my control (e.g., obligations at work or for my family). But some of those are within my control. An example: having standards or expectations that are too high. If I have some vague expectation… Continue reading
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Getting Back to the Rhythm of Posting Regularly
The last post I put up was about three weeks ago. Why the delay? We came back from Ventura, where we were staying in July. We came back to the start of the school year for four of the kids: one at St. Mary’s High School, and three at Veritas Preparatory Academy. That start-of-the-school-year frenzy… Continue reading
Subjects of Interest
A.R.S. § 12-910 (5) Arizona Administrative Code (1) Art of Manliness Podcast (1) Austin Kleon (1) Christopher Nolan (1) cotidian photo (3) Criterion Channel (1) David Whyte (1) Great Books (1) Josef Pieper (2) Los Angeles (1) movies (2) Office of Administrative Hearings (3) OptimalWork (1) personal growth (1) philosophy (1) Phoenix (1) reading (1) Registrar of Contractors (10) restaurant (3) Roam Research (1) Spanish (1) spoken Latin (2) Steve Chandler (1) theology (1) travel (4) trial de novo (5) Ventura (2) writing on the Internet (1) Zettelkasten (1)
