NAC642.220. Failure to appear at hearing; application to reopen proceedings after failure to appear.

     1. If a person against whom a charge or petition was filed does not appear at a hearing and a continuance has not been approved by the Board, the Board may hear the testimony of witnesses present at the hearing and consider and dispose of the charge or petition on the basis of the evidence before it.

     2. If a person does not appear at a hearing because of illness, involvement in an accident, or for other reasonable cause, he may within 15 days after the date of the hearing apply to the Secretary of the Board to reopen the proceedings. If the Board determines that the reason for the absence was sufficient and reasonable, it will immediately set a time and place for a hearing and give the person notice of the hearing.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Funeral Dir., Embalmers, Cemeteries & Crematories, eff. 11-1-95)