In the list below, you will find the recent posts on the site that relate to the law or my legal practice.
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…
Keep readingA 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.…
Keep readingROC 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…
Keep readingDisclosure 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…
Keep readingNeglect, 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…
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