Public Hearing
When the director is satisfied that further endeavors to settle
a complaint by conference, conciliation, and persuasion is unworkable
and should be bypassed, and the thirty-day period has expired
without agreeement, the director with the approval of a commissioner,
shall issue and cause to be served a written notice specifying
the charges in the complaint as they may have been amended and
the reasons for bypassing conciliation, if the conciliation is
bypassed, and requiring the respondent to answer the charges of
the complaint at a hearing before the Commission, a commissioner,
or a person designated by the Commission to conduct the hearing,
hereafter referred to as the administrative law judge, and at
a time and place to be specified in the notice.
Iowa Code section 216.15(5).
The hearing shall be conducted in accordance with the provisions
of Chapter 17A for contested cases. The burden of proof in such
a hearing shall be on the Commission.
Iowa Code section 216.15(7).