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Any applicant or recipient aggrieved by the failure of the local board to make a decision within a reasonable time may ask for review by the Commissioner. The Commissioner may delegate the duty and authority to duly qualified hearing officers to consider and make determinations on any appeal or review. The Commissioner shall provide an opportunity for a hearing, reasonable notice of which shall be given in writing to the applicant or recipient and to the proper local board in such manner and form as the Commissioner may prescribe. The Commissioner may make or cause to be made an investigation of the facts. The Commissioner shall give fair and impartial consideration to the testimony of witnesses, or other evidence produced at the hearing, reports of investigation of the local board and local director or of investigations made or caused to be made by the Commissioner, or any facts which the Commissioner may deem proper to enable him to decide fairly the appeal or review. 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This law was first created in 2012. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapters 803<\/a> and 835<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":86911,"section_number":"2.2-4000","catch_line":"Short title; purpose","order_by":null,"url":"\/2.2-4000\/"}],"permalink":{"id":236921,"object_type":"law","relational_id":58424,"identifier":"51.5-147","token":"51.5\/14\/4\/51.5-147","url":"\/51.5-147\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/51.5-147\/","token":"51.5\/14\/4\/51.5-147","dublin_core":{"Title":"Appeal to Commissioner regarding home-based and adult foster care services","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 51.5-147","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

Any applicant for or recipient of home-based and adult foster care<\/span> services aggrieved by any decision of a local board<\/span> in granting, denying, changing, or discontinuing services may, within 30 days after receiving written notice of such decision, appeal<\/span> therefrom to the Commissioner<\/span>. Any applicant or recipient aggrieved by the failure of the local board<\/span> to make a decision within a reasonable time may ask for review by the Commissioner<\/span>. The Commissioner<\/span> may delegate the duty and authority to duly qualified hearing<\/span> officers to consider and make determinations on any appeal<\/span> or review. The Commissioner<\/span> shall provide an opportunity for a hearing<\/span>, reasonable notice of which shall be given in writing to the applicant or recipient and to the proper local board<\/span> in such manner and form as the Commissioner<\/span> may prescribe. The Commissioner<\/span> may make or cause to be made an investigation of the facts<\/span>. The Commissioner<\/span> shall give fair and impartial consideration to the testimony<\/span> of witnesses, or other evidence<\/span> produced at the hearing<\/span>, reports of investigation of the local board<\/span> and local director<\/span> or of investigations made or caused to be made by the Commissioner<\/span>, or any facts<\/span> which the Commissioner<\/span> may deem proper to enable him to decide fairly the appeal<\/span> or review. The decision of the Commissioner<\/span> shall be binding and considered a final agency action for purposes of judicial review of such action pursuant to the provisions of the Administrative Process Act (\u00a7 2.2-4000<\/a> et seq.).<\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nAPPEAL TO COMMISSIONER REGARDING HOME-BASED AND ADULT FOSTER CARE SERVICES (\u00a7\n51.5-147)\n\nAny applicant for or recipient of home-based and adult foster care services\naggrieved by any decision of a local board in granting, denying, changing, or\ndiscontinuing services may, within 30 days after receiving written notice of\nsuch decision, appeal therefrom to the Commissioner. Any applicant or recipient\naggrieved by the failure of the local board to make a decision within a\nreasonable time may ask for review by the Commissioner. The Commissioner may\ndelegate the duty and authority to duly qualified hearing officers to consider\nand make determinations on any appeal or review. The Commissioner shall provide\nan opportunity for a hearing, reasonable notice of which shall be given in\nwriting to the applicant or recipient and to the proper local board in such\nmanner and form as the Commissioner may prescribe. The Commissioner may make or\ncause to be made an investigation of the facts. The Commissioner shall give fair\nand impartial consideration to the testimony of witnesses, or other evidence\nproduced at the hearing, reports of investigation of the local board and local\ndirector or of investigations made or caused to be made by the Commissioner, or\nany facts which the Commissioner may deem proper to enable him to decide fairly\nthe appeal or review. The decision of the Commissioner shall be binding and\nconsidered a final agency action for purposes of judicial review of such action\npursuant to the provisions of the Administrative Process Act (\u00a7 2.2-4000 et\nseq.).\n\nHISTORY: 2012, cc. 803, 835.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}