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 The Director may, with the approval of the Chief Justice, designate certain hearing officers as having the experience and expertise to preside at specific types of contested cases and assign only those designated hearing officers to preside at those cases.

7A-754.

.--Only persons duly authorized to practice law in the General Court of Justice shall be eligible for appointment as the Director and chief hearing officer or as a hearing officer in the Office of Administrative hearings.

7A-755.

.--The Director of the Office of Administrative Hearings and all hearing officers shall be reimbursed for travel and subsistence expenses at the rates allowed to State officers and employess by G.S. 133-6(a).

7A-756.

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7A-757.

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7A-758.

.--The Director of the Office of Administrative Hearings may, under request of the head of the agency, provide a hearing officer to preside at hearings of public bodies not otherwise authorized or required by statute to utilize a hearing officer from the Office of Administrative Hearings including, but not limited to, State agencies exempt from the provisions of Chapter 150B, municipal corporations or other subdivisions of the State, and agencies of such subdivisions. 22