Vermont § 15 - Rules, orders, and administrative interpretations

§ 15. Rules, orders, and administrative interpretations

• (a) In addition to other powers conferred by this title and 18 V.S.A. chapter 221, the Commissioner may adopt rules and issue orders as shall be authorized by or necessary
  to the administration of this title and of 18 V.S.A. chapter 221, and to carry out the purposes of such titles. (b) The Commissioner may, whether or not requested by any person, issue written advisory
  interpretations, advisory opinions, non-objection letters, and no action letters under
  this title and regulations issued under it, including interpretations of the applicability
  of any provision of this title and regulations issued under it. Such interpretations
  shall be presumed to be correct unless found to be clearly erroneous by a court of
  competent jurisdiction. The Commissioner may make public all or a portion of an advisory
  interpretation. (c) The Commissioner may waive the requirements of 15 V.S.A. § 795(b) as the Commissioner deems necessary to permit the Department to participate in any
  national licensing or registration systems with respect to any person or entity subject
  to the jurisdiction of the Commissioner under this title, Title 9, or 18 V.S.A. chapter 221. (d) Upon written request by the Office of Child Support and after notice and opportunity
  for hearing to the licensee as required under any applicable provision of law, the
  Commissioner may revoke or suspend any license or other authority to conduct a trade
  or business (including a license to practice a profession) issued to any person under
  this title, 9 V.S.A. chapter 150, and 18 V.S.A. chapter 221, if the Commissioner finds that the applicant or licensee is subject to a child support
  order and is not in good standing with respect to that order or is not in full compliance
  with a plan to pay any and all child support payable under a support order as of the
  date the application is filed or as of the date of the commencement of revocation
  proceedings, as applicable. For purposes of such findings, the written representation
  to that effect by the Office of Child Support to the Commissioner shall constitute
  prima facie evidence. The Office of Child Support shall have the right to intervene
  in any hearing conducted with respect to such license revocation or suspension. Any
  findings made by the Commissioner based solely upon the written representation with
  respect to that license revocation or suspension shall be made only for the purposes
  of that proceeding and shall not be relevant to or introduced in any other proceeding
  at law, except for any appeal from that license revocation or suspension. Any license
  or certificate of authority suspended or revoked under this section shall not be reissued
  or renewed until the Department receives a certificate issued by the Office of Child
  Support that the licensee is in good standing with respect to a child support order
  or is in full compliance with a plan to pay any and all child support payable under
  a support order. (Added 1999, No. 153 (Adj. Sess.), § 1, eff. Jan. 1, 2001; amended 2009, No. 42, § 33a; 2013, No. 73, § 58, eff. June 5, 2013; 2015, No. 63, § 3, eff. June 17, 2015; 2019, No. 20, § 106.)