Section 1221 Of Article 11. Administrative Appellate Review From California Unemployment Insurance Code >> Division 1. >> Part 1. >> Chapter 4. >> Article 11.
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. (a) Within 10 working days of notice of an assessment
pursuant to Section 1137, the employer may file a petition for
reassessment of the jeopardy assessment pursuant to Section 1222.
(b) Within five days of receiving a petition for reassessment
pursuant to subdivision (a), the board shall notify the employer of
the date and time of a preliminary hearing to determine the
reasonableness of levying the assessment pursuant to Section 1137.
The preliminary hearing shall be held before an administrative law
judge and scheduled not less than 10 nor more than 20 days from the
filing of the petition for reassessment. The administrative law judge
shall issue a decision within 10 days of the scheduled hearing date.
The date scheduled for the preliminary hearing may be continued by
the administrative law judge upon the request of the employer and the
director.
(c) The burden of proof on the issue of the reasonableness of
levying the assessment pursuant to Section 1137 shall be on the
director. In determining the reasonableness of levying the assessment
pursuant to Section 1137 at the preliminary hearing, the
administrative law judge shall consider and make findings on whether
the director had probable cause under Section 1137.1 to levy the
assessment pursuant to Section 1137. If the administrative law judge
or the board, on appeal from an administrative law judge's decision,
decides that the assessment should not have been levied under Section
1137, the assessment shall automatically become, and shall have the
effect of, an assessment pursuant to Section 1126 or 1127, whichever
is applicable. If the administrative law judge or the board decides
that the assessment was properly levied under Section 1137, this
decision shall be incorporated in any decision rendered following the
hearing pursuant to subdivision (d). The board shall expedite any
appeal from an administrative law judge's decision on a preliminary
hearing.
(d) All other issues raised by a petition for reassessment filed
pursuant to subdivision (a), including, but not limited to, the
appropriateness of the amount assessed, shall be determined at a
hearing scheduled and held pursuant to Sections 1223 and 1224.