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Legal director tells appraisal commission ABC settlements should be final, urges formal hardship waiver rulemaking
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Paul Grabowski, the department's legal program director, told the Connecticut Real Estate Appraisal Commission that acceptance-by-consent (ABC) settlements should be final, that hardship waivers need codified regulations and that the commission's role in investigations is limited to preserve due process.
Paul Grabowski, the department's legal program director, told the Connecticut Real Estate Appraisal Commission at its May meeting that acceptance-by-consent (ABC) settlement agreements should be treated as final and not later waived.
"Once an ABC is accepted as a settlement, it should be final," Grabowski said, arguing that allowing an accepted ABC to be later waived creates legal and administrative complications, including refunds and uncertainty about the binding nature of agreements.
Grabowski told commissioners the department is drafting regulations to establish a separate hardship-waiver process because, he said, Connecticut…
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